Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time.
There's nothing wrong with options. Options are everywhere. In movies, in sports. Options is not a dirty word. I need to pay my overheads, you know. I invest a lot of money developing a fighter and then I deserve to reap the rewards.
I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing , but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.
The show was bad, but I was great
If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.
Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
My favorite was going as a boxer when I was 9 years old and wearing my dad's boxing gear.
You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.
I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.
I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.
He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He challenged it. You against me? Dream on, pal. He built borders for it. Then walls. He built walls and forced the pain behind them and then he moved the walls inward, compressing the pain, crushing it, boxing it in, limiting it, beating it.
How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!
Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.
I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it. '
I cant believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to.
People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.
I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.
I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.
If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.
That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.