When you're in a fight, and you get hit, it hurts. And as you get older, you begin to take on the aches and the bruises of doing that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.
Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.
In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.
Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.
Fighting is kind of like choreography. It's not just get in there and punching someone: you have to have choreography. Someone is going to hit high; someone is going to hit at the bottom.
I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults... When you're fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry.
When you get into a fight with your partner or a friend, you usually have some weird, specific thing that you hold on to that you fight about that has nothing to do with what's going on.
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 than it is about winning.
Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.