"Boxing is show-business with blood."
David Belasco
" Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us."
Omar Epps
"A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat. "
Sonny Liston
"There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing. "
Larry Merchant
"Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. "
Joyce Carol Oates
"Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless. "
Bob Verdi
David Belasco
" Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us."
Omar Epps
"A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat. "
Sonny Liston
"There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing. "
Larry Merchant
"Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. "
Joyce Carol Oates
"Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless. "
Bob Verdi
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