Boxes Quote by Dana Gould

My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden the rails…

— Joe R. Lansdale

My dad always wanted me to box because he saw a career in it for me.

— Buster Douglas

Right next to my bedroom, Dad made a chin-up bar with a rowing machine and a treadmill. From there, as years went by, we…

— Joseph Parker

My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post…

— Tom Brokaw

My dad was a tree surgeon. When I was younger, he was working away five days a week for weeks on end, just trying…

— Kieran Trippier

My dad's a worker, an electrician, a bog standard job. Nothing glamorous like a footballer, but yet he still provided me with what I…

— Ashley Thomas

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and…

— Alice Walker

As a child I started working. Again I had luck with my father's help financially, but I also had to work. I had a…

— Eric Bailly

My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.

— Judy Johnson

My father had four jobs every summer. He taught driver's education. He sold World Book Encyclopedias. He sold life insurance. He worked the tobacco…

— Kelvin Sampson

We were working class, but my mother stopped working at the mill when she married my father and he went on to become an…

— Lisa Stansfield

My father was a foreman on building sites and he was really good at getting a day's work out of fellas. And he did…

— Adrian Dunbar