In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand.
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As everyone in boxing knows, styles makes fights.
All boxers are different, and we all approach the fights in different ways.
Boxing is really an art form. It might just look like two people beating each other up, but when you look closer, it's actually quite beautiful and interesting.
A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and begins his blow where all blows ought to begin, from the solidarity of the right foot.
In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
I think the beauty and mystery of boxing is just the immediacy of how it reveals people unlike anything else.
A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.
I would like to be remembered as a boxer who tried to do his best.
A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.
There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.
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