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Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capitalism and communism: Castro's values instilled in his boxers pitted against the values of 'merchandise' boxers from the rest of the world.
Brin-Jonathan Butler /
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Cuba
Merchandise
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For 'Boxers & Saints,' I started by reading a couple of articles on the Internet, then writing a really rough outline, then getting more hardcore into the research. I went to a university library once a week for a year, year and a half.
Gene Luen Yang / Writer
Articles
Boxers
Couple
Half
Hardcore
Internet
Library
Reading
Research
Rough
University
Week
Writing
Started
Year
Once A Week
Outline
Saints
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'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't get that going in my mind. I don't know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from.
Richard Matheson / Author
Boxers
Female
Unusual
Time Man Mind
Boxer
Legend
Pitting
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I will become the greatest, because all travellers have to be able to adapt. That quality, adaptability, is essential to that way of life. Not many boxers have it but I can adapt before a fight to the opponent, during the fight if necessary.
Tyson Fury / Professional Boxer
Quality
Boxers
Adapt
Life Fight Way
Essential
Opponent
Travellers
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In boxing, it just seemed to me from the time I was a very small child, we have a peculiarly civilized form in that boxers don't screech and holler. They don't use weapons. When the bell rings, they fight; when the bell rings again, they stop.
Katherine Dunn / Novelist
Boxers
Civilized
Rings
Small Child
Weapons
Time Fight Me
Bell
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The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.
John Boyle O'reilly / Poet
Boxers
Exercise
Father
Manhood
Play
Unarmed
Appeared
Distinctions
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Encounter
Fathers
Greeks
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Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.
Brin-Jonathan Butler /
Baseball
Boxers
Cargo
Cuban
Dollars
Expensive
Sitting
Trade
Begin
Athletes
Baseball Players
Ring
Billion
Billion Dollars
Capital
Represent
Field
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I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.
Laura Prepon / Actress
Bed
Boxers
Clothes
Sleep
Weird
Tank
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Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.
Jim Brown / Football Player
Science
Another Man
Boxers
Example
Football
Greater
Results
Speed
Full
Great Example
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Hits
Taking
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When I trained for 'Creed,' I had about a year in advance to know what I was doing before. So I lived like a fighter, you know? I went through the workout routine, the diet, training with real boxers, training with real trainers, did the whole thing.
Michael B. Jordan / Actor
Diet
Boxers
Fighter
Routine
Trainers
Workout
About A Year
Advance
Creed
Trained
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I guess we both lose the bet. What bet Thomas asked entering the room. Boxers or briefs Jeanne Louise answered. I was betting boxers and Elspeth thought briefs. Instead he went commando!! So be warned ladies, don't assume they are wearing any undies!!
Lynsay Sands / Author
Boxers
Entering
Rooms
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Women boxers prefer to focus on the win rather than the bravado. We've come a long way. In the '90s, you only ever saw women parading in heels and a bikini holding a scorecard. Now we're owning it; we should get some male models in Speedos to do the ring walk.
Nicola Adams /
Boxers
Bravado
Heels
Long Way
Models
Male
Ring
Bikini
Holding
Owning
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My documentary 'Split Decision' examines Cuban-American relations, and the economic and cultural paradoxes that have shaped them since Castro's revolution, through the lens of elite Cuban boxers forced to choose between remaining in Cuba or defecting to America.
Brin-Jonathan Butler /
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Castro
Cuba
Decision
Economic
Revolution
Choose
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Documentary
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Forced
Lens
Shaped
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Split
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When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to you than if you box, say, Mike Tyson, you've got to get a new profession. You don't get to be a family. I know why boxers never quit, some of them. They don't have wives.
George Foreman / Professional Boxer
Boxers
Mike
Never Quit
Profession
Tyson
Afraid
Life Family Wife
Box
Mike Tyson
Quit
Wives
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I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl - when I see it I'm like, oh my God - is these little tight boxers. Don't get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it's just enough.
Jensen Ackles / Actor
Girl
Blue
Blue Jeans
Boxers
Fine
Jeans
Sexiest
Sexy
Cover
Oh My God
Super
Tank
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The Boxer Rebellion is a war that was fought on Chinese soil in the year 1900. The Europeans, the Japanese and their Chinese Christian allies were on one side. On the other were poor, starving, illiterate Chinese teenagers whom the Europeans referred to as the Boxers.
Gene Luen Yang / Writer
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Allies
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Christian
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Poor
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Soil
Starving
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Fought
Japanese
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Whom
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It's not uncommon for some Khmer boxers to fight with dangerous frequency, sometimes as often as weekly or bi-weekly, getting up to three hundred or more fights in a career, with the length of a career varying from fighter to fighter, some engaging in bouts far past their prime.
Mary Pilon /
Boxers
Engaging
Fighter
Frequency
Length
Uncommon
Fights
Weekly
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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.
Brin-Jonathan Butler /
Depression
Boxers
Narrative
Vietnam
Vietnam War
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Carried
Event
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I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm room. And I came up with the idea of writing an action-based 'Snow White,' with this kind of Huntsman character as kind of a way in. So, that's something I'm sort of proud of.
Evan Daugherty / Screenwriter
Boxers
Humble
Snow
Snow White
College Student
Student
Dorm
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Boxers, man, except when I have to get dressed up. Then it's boxer-briefs. But never tighty-whities. Never. But dude! If they brought back Underoos? Dude, if they brought back Underoos, I would rock the Underoos. Like He-Man and Transformers and G.I. Joe and even like Dukes of Hazzard.
Colin Hanks / Actor
Boxers
Dressed
Dude
Joe
Transformers
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In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and '70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide.
Katherine Dunn / Novelist
Women
Legal
Boxers
Female
Half
Marginalized
Serious
States
United States
Vaudeville
Compete
First
Wars
Developed
Won
Later
Nationwide
Right
Professionally
Waged
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I think the 'Boxers' book was easier for me to envision as a comic, because they were on this epic journey. These teenagers basically gathered into this army and marched to the capital city where they had a showdown with the Europeans and Japanese. On the 'Saints' side, it was a lot trickier.
Gene Luen Yang / Writer
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Boxers
Comic
Capital
Envision
Europeans
Gathered
Japanese
Saints
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No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.
Katherine Dunn / Novelist
Boxers
Dozen
Gym
Coach
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Endured
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I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.
Sugar Ray Leonard / Professional Boxer
Boxers
Former
Gold
Medal
Ended
Further
Go Home
Gold Medal
In The End
Intentions
Whatsoever
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Muhammad Ali was unquestionably one of the greatest boxers of the 20th century and a sincere advocate for his religious beliefs. In his life, he defeated the best professional boxers of his era, some of them more than once, which meant he was easily forgiven the excesses of his ringside braggadocio.
Tom Tancredo / Former United States Representative
Boxers
Defeated
Excess
Forgiven
Muhammad
Sincere
Advocate
Ali
Beliefs
Religious Beliefs
Unquestionably
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Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.
Sugar Ray Leonard / Professional Boxer
Sports
Boxers
Developing
Focus
Versus
Life Work Sports
Life Work Focus
Heroes
Fighters
Personalities
Pitting
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I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization - the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities - is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.
Wladimir Klitschko / Professional Boxer
Boxers
Discipline
Lacking
Needed
Organization
Priorities
Psychological
Self
Successful
Talent
Training
Physical
Schedule
Studies
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One can construct a strong legal and ethical argument for minimizing the fees that are paid to world sanctioning organizations in conjunction with championship bouts. It's not uncommon for skilled fighters to be denied championship opportunities while less-talented but better-connected boxers fight for belts.
Thomas Hauser /
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Belts
Boxers
Championship
Denied
Ethical
Fees
Uncommon
Conjunction
Construct
Organizations
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We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody's gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.
George Foreman / Professional Boxer
Boxers
Champion
Couple
Minutes
Rumor
Sneak
Sparring
Week
Weight
Hit
Boxer
Jab
Lift
Longer
Noticed
Room
Realize
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If chronic bashing of the head could destroy a boxer's brain, couldn't it also destroy a football player's brain? Surely someone in the history of football had thought to look for dementia pugilistica. Unlike boxers, football players wear helmets, but a helmet can't fully protect the head from damaging impact.
Jeanne Marie Laskas / Writer
Boxers
Dementia
Helmet
Boxer
Chronic
Damaging
Destroy
Football Players
Unlike
Surely
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Imagine stepping into the shoes of Roberto Duran, one of the most legendary boxers in the history of the sport, and definitely the most legendary Latin American boxer, and then having 'Raging Bull' in my corner. I mean, imagine that? Just having Robert De Niro to play the trainer in the movie, that was fantastic.
Edgar Ramirez / Actor
Boxers
De Niro
Latin
Latin American
Legendary
Boxer
Bull
Corner
Duran
Niro
Raging
Robert
Robert De Niro
Stepping
Trainer
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When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.
Victor Ortiz / Boxer
Positive
Accomplished
Boxers
Community
Growing Up
Influence
Mexican
Positive Influence
Proud
Relate
Conduct
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In my research, I learned that the Boxers' kung fu wasn't all that formalized. The vast majority of them didn't belong to some age-old martial arts tradition. They were basically poor, starving teenagers doing the best they could to figure out how to fight, relying more on their mystical beliefs than formal training.
Gene Luen Yang / Writer
Boxers
Formal
Martial Arts
Mystical
Starving
Age-Old
Beliefs
Belong
Vast
Martial
Relying
Teenagers
Vast Majority
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We spend a lot of time on Skype and other video interviews, and it's funny how many people will prepare for a Skype interview by wearing a formal suit jacket with pajama pants on the bottom. Then suddenly, someone is at the door, and you have to get up, and you realize you're wearing reindeer boxers. Just put pants on.
Kathryn Minshew /
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Boxers
Formal
Pants
Skype
Funny Time People
How Many People
Interview
Jacket
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Suit
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For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.
Edgar Ramirez / Actor
Boxers
Psychological
Strategy
Technique
Aspects
Movies Me Important
Puts
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Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?
Brin-Jonathan Butler /
Athlete
Boxers
Essence
Extremes
Nowhere
Contest
Defend
Fundamental
Fundamental Questions
Hide
How Far
Illuminates
Narratives
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I think with fighting you have to have a desire to achieve something. You never see a rich kid get to the top of any combat sport because they don't have the drive. All the great boxers come from the ghetto. They all had nothing. They have the desire, the hunger but the rich kid is not going to get punched in the face. Why would they?
Gegard Mousasi /
Boxers
Combat
Ghetto
Hunger
Punched
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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
Brin-Jonathan Butler /
Athlete
Boxers
Cash
Cuban
Despite
Lottery
Tickets
Anywhere Else
Ashore
Vast
Effectively
Elite
Impoverished
Incentive
Stayed
Vast Majority
Wash
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
Edgar Ramirez / Actor
Boxers
Duran
Lightly
Roberto
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Boxers risk a lot in the ring. That's one of the things that attracts me to it. You want to see a knockout but I also really don't want to see people get hurt. It's this constant dilemma when I'm watching boxing. The only times I get nervous is watching a really big fight or when my brother is playing. I get to the stage where I'm actually shaking.
Andy Murray / Tennis Player
Boxers
Brother
Constant
Dilemma
Hurt
Nervous
Shaking
Stage
Me People See
Fight Me People
Attracts
Ring
Fight
One Of The Things
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