Boxing Matches Quotes

“To be a boxer is to be within yourself, inside your thoughts and feelings.”
― Brian D'Ambrosio

“Boxing is beautiful brutality, and the devil is in the duality. Boxing is a tug of war and you recognize the antithetical feelings that are pulling you from the other end.”
― Brian D'Ambrosio

“Life," Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, "is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the wits, bookended on the one side by events in which one is shot at, and on the other end by mornings like this.”
― Sam Starbuck, The Dead Isle

“Boxing begins in illusion and ends in real blood and tears. That's what makes it so beautiful.”
― Brian D'Ambrosio, Life in the Trenches

“Boxing encompasses the very worst and very best of human nature and its beautiful brutality is a marvelous contradiction for a writer. It conjures up so many irreconcilably antagonistic feelings.”
― Brian D'Ambrosio

“Mystical organizations are only a crystallization of facts which can be found, in a more diffuse and less tangible form, in all strata of people. The degree of mystical, sentimental and sadistic feelings corresponds exactly to the degree of the disturbance of natural orgastic experience. Close observation of the audience of a trashy thriller or of a boxing match teaches more about these problems than a hundred handbooks of sexology.”
― Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism