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Today, many fans are saddened and upset by the lack of integrity they see in professional boxing that has significantly weakened the sport - the most deplorable problem of which is the treatment of the sport's athletes.

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.