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Boxing Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved
- Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.
- Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.
- Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
- Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more…
- Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
- The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
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- Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. — Frank Bruno
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