Boxing Quote by Roger Kahn Download Open image “Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.” — Roger Kahn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boxing Halls
I never really, really pushed my boys into boxing, but I guess it's in the blood. — Joe Calzaghe Copy Share Image
There are beautiful things about the sport of boxing and there are ugly things. — Keith Thurman Copy Share Image
Boxing’s an art, it’s a science, and you don’t go out to knock people out. If they happen to get knocked out, they happen… — Roy Jones Jr Copy Share Image
People want to see blood. They don't care anymore if you can box for 12 rounds. They don't appreciate the art of the good boxer. — Shannon Briggs Copy Share Image
Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless. — Bob Verdi Copy Share Image
“Worse, Roger erupted into outbursts of uncontrollable rage, without apparent cause. In time I learned that this was one symptom of what therapists formerly described as a manic-depressive personality. Now they call the condition bipolar disorder. Roger sometimes telephoned and began the conversation, “You better listen to me, Dad, or you are one dead man.” Then, half an hour later,… — Roger Kahn Copy Share
“Dear Dad: After twenty-two years in the amusement park, this roller coaster isn’t fun any more, so I’m getting off the ride. Roger” — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
“Poor kid, I thought, to do this to yourself at twenty-three and leave a note that tells me you could have been a writer.… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him. — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams. — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat. — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
You know, it brings in a lot of different people; you take people off the street, and kids, and people from all different walks… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
Apart from my grandad, none of my family had really been into boxing so the sport was never discussed much at home. — Josh Taylor Copy Share Image
You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone. — Sugar Ray Robinson Copy Share Image
I actually like boxing away from home. It takes the pressure off you a little bit. — James DeGale Copy Share Image
Whether it's Marcos Maidana, Shawn Porter, Amir Khan or Kell Brook, there are a lot of fights out there that I think would be… — Keith Thurman Copy Share Image
I first got into boxing when I was quite young. I was about 12 when I won my first boxing match. — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
Boxing can be so important to young people, it keeps you off the street and you can channel your energy and aggression in the… — Nigel Benn Copy Share Image
I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing,… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
I liked wrestling a lot better than boxing. I remember thinking at that time that wrestling was a pure demonstration of strength, which I… — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image