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I think our main focus of these next few games is really defending people and boxing out. I think whoever wins the battle of the boards will come up with two victories, either way.

I thought I got robbed. I thought I threw more punches than him and landed more. But that's how boxing is. I just can't believe I lost that fight.

I'm hungry about boxing because the break has been so long.

Mejia had been working in construction, but if he decides to come back to boxing full time, he's going to make a sensational pro. He is a very strong puncher.

That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.

That's the rough tactics of boxing. But I'm a bigger, stronger man. I'm just coming into my prime. I've got a lot more to offer boxing now.

I was no great boxer, but I just loved to get out there and box. The most important thing I want the kids to learn is to have dedication to their performance. Believe in your skills, hone those skills and never give up are also what I hope these kids will take away from their boxing experience.

Most Hollywood boxing movies are metaphors. Your movie is not a metaphor. It's really about boxing.

Mostly, my teammates were boxing out and I was the open guy. Just staying aggressive.

You just know that without music, P. Diddy would still be something. Muhammad Ali was the same way. Boxing was just a platform. He would have been great in politics or something else. Your performance has to be there, but you've also got to be able to reach people and bring them to where you are. To make them feel you.

You can argue that boxing is the only sport that takes its biggest events and they're seen by the fewest people. The biggest heavyweight fight is going to be a pay-per-view event. Maybe they get a million buys. The Super Bowl is watched by how many people?

We couldn't get any shots. They did a great job boxing us out. I feel at this point we can play with anybody but we've got to play a mostly mistake-free game.

We put in some different looks, it was something we just put in before the Johnstown game. It broke up their rhythm a little, and we did a good job boxing out.

We hope our defensive pressure is as productive as it's been the last two games. We've scored a lot of points off our defense. We just need to continue boxing out and crashing the boards.

We really picked it up in the second half. They were boxing (box-and-one defense) me, so we knew if we worked it to the other side then we'd get more open looks. Plus, we did a better job of getting back on defense. I guess we just needed that good holler to get us back in the game.

We had a little problem boxing out in the second half, and that's how they got a lot of second-chance opportunities. That really hurt us in the second half.

We have a great product. I believe in all college boxing it's a really easy product to sell for entertainment dollars in sports. Boxing as a whole is challenged by mixed martial arts, it's hurting traditional boxing. It's a different era now for boxing. It's difficult to get people to follow the sport. It's special for us to have loyal fans.

You and I both know that one of the worst things that can happen to boxing is people getting seriously hurt or killed in the ring.

We've got some girls that are pretty disciplined about boxing out. We're quick to the ball.

We're working on boxing and we're going to be smart about it. A basic 1-2 is not going to work. Manny knows that now.

We could have done a better job of boxing out, screening them and being more physical with them. But they're a good team.

Today was lights-out. At the start, it was kind of a boxing match. No one was really getting anything but then our offense opened it up and defensively, we made the plays.

We got together with the people who run all these groups and told them there needs to be a uniform set of rules, like with boxing or any other combat sport. The people at UFC have complied with everything we've asked of them.

We aren't a big team and we play in a region with George Walton, which has two girls that are 6-foot-2. That means we have to be good at getting into position and boxing out.

We didn't do the best job boxing out, and we gave up a lot of second shots. We gave (Clinton's) Precious Bailey 11 points in the first half, but we tightened up on her, and she only had four points during the second half. That was key for us.

We haven't played man much this year, but we know if we are going to be a successful team, we are going to have to play it. They did a good job of defending, helping each other out, boxing out when they need to.

The problem of steroids in the sport of boxing must be addressed. This lawsuit is an effort to push this process forward.

We were just not boxing out and allowed them to get second chance points. If we're doing that (boxing out) from the beginning we would have probably had a chance to win at the end.

We were just a little too casual. Just a little too casual on defense, not quite boxing out enough, not quite challenging the shooter. And the other teams were taking advantage of it. We have the talent to play with these teams, but when we don't bring our best it's not like we have a big margin for error. We just came back and took care of the little things.

We didn't do a very good job boxing out tonight. You can't give them three shots at it and hope to win.

We didn't do a good job boxing out the first half.

We had some nice shooting tonight. We were also boxing out better. We have been having a hard time doing that this year, but tonight you could see them doing a good job locating an opponent on a miss and getting the rebound.

We beat a variety of teams, so to me nothing should surprise us. They've got a lot of tradition and they always have a lot of great athletes. We just have to go out and have fun and enjoy being there because we deserve to be there. We're not a big team and we're going to be working a lot on boxing out. But we're undersized and we went out and beat a team like Reynoldsburg that's got some big guys." ()

There are barriers of entry to other sports - boxing and Rugby Union for example.

We were a great rebounding team last year so teams are really making it a point to attack the boards on us, ... As guards, we're going to have to do a better job of boxing our man out and then getting back there and helping out. That's how we can get out running and get into our offense.

If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

The type of work I do is more like CrossFit, so I do track workouts, and I do boxing workouts. So it's a lot of different things that I do. I don't want to overload the body too much, but when we do the hill, it's not like workouts.

I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.

Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.

If he says he has the pizzazz and the sizzle, I have the steak, and substance. I've made more money than he's made. I've made bigger deals than he's made, when he's got the complexion to get the protection.

I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him.

His credibility is zilch, virtually nil.

You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?

I'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it.

When you can count your money, you ai'nt got none.

Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it.

Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit.

Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.

Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.

There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.

People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top.

I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.

Michael seems to have lost his values temporarily. He just has to be worked with, disciplined and talked to and given some tender loving care and understanding.

There's only one rule anyone connected with boxing must keep in mind - everything you here in boxing is a lie.

I will fight for America till the day I drop.

I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum.

I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.

You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal.

I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly

When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.

There's nothing wrong with options. Options are everywhere. In movies, in sports. Options is not a dirty word. I need to pay my overheads, you know. I invest a lot of money developing a fighter and then I deserve to reap the rewards.

You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.

From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.

I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.

I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.

When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.

You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.

I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him.

Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined.

This kid deserves anything good that happens to him. He's such a good guy. He's just the nicest human being you want to meet.

I loved the movie for the simple reason that I saw the scenes and I saw Muhammad working with these guys.

You're talkin' legit here.

My kid could move like a lightweight

You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem.

I never knew about a lot of the outside things

The match would have to be made at 165 pounds. Sean can't make 160 any more, even though he's drinking lite beer these days

What's his name? I tried to forget him because if he would have fought like he worked with my guy he would have knocked the guy out.

In all my years in boxing I'd never known such heat

He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him.

I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.

The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep

Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.

You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it!

When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.

Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.

British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

Besides Scream, I liked The Purge. It stuck with me because it reminds me of boxing - you have 45 minutes to punch someone legally without consequence.

I'm a self motivated person, that's what got me to the point I'm at today. I don't take anybody lightly because this is what I do, this is my job. The day that I stop taking it seriously is the day I have to stop boxing. I would never put myself into a position where I go into the ring not prepared.

Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing. That's what's great about the choreography that goes on here. It's a delicate ballet with a fist in the face.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

Boxing is your father's sport.

I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York

We have seen much-improved inside play of late. That four-man rotation is giving us everything we need out of our post play. They're boxing out, rebounding, scoring and basically, just controlling the paint.