I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.
I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.
Some have made boxing a terrible thing to be around.
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
We try to tell these guys that the end of a boxing career isn't the end of their lives: it's the beginning of a new one.
When we started training with WWE, coaches were impressed and asked if we had had boxing training. I said no, it was all soccer. As a defender, I had to learn to stay on my feet, track backwards, and I feel all the movement I do in the ring was helped by my soccer background.
Boxing was just another one to keep me going as a child.
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.
Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.
My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.
I love yoga, pilates, boxing, spinning, and weight lifting and tend to do a mix of them all.
Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
I remember I did a boxing class. I remember sparring one time, and the guy smacked me right in the nose, and I was just like, 'What is this? No. No. None of that.
My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.
I like boxing.
Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.
I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.
When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.
People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.
Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
I'm somewhat of a masochist at heart. I like to sweat. I come from a very competitive sporting background - my dad was a world-champion surfer - so it's always been a part of my DNA. I do a lot of soft-sand running, hiking, yoga, and boxing, and I compete in triathlons.
I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.
I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
They don't show Olympic boxing on TV in prime time. They haven't done that since 1988. In 1992, they showed one: Oscar De La Hoya. In 1996, they didn't show it. In 2000, they didn't show it. In 2004, they didn't show it. In 2008, they did not even mention boxing at all. You would think the United States didn't have a boxing team in 2008.
The British scene in boxing, not just the heavyweight division, is popping.
Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.
Alvarez is the biggest name in boxing. I'm looking forward to pitting my wits against one of the best in the sport.
Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.
Sugar Ray wouldn't give me a rematch, and that's the reason I walked away from boxing.
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.
In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.'
But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.
In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.
That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. That's what takes people out of the fight half the time.
