Famous quotes containing the words world and/or boxing:
“I have not loved the world, nor the world me;
I have not flatterd its rank breath, nor bowd
To its idolatries a patient knee.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxingfor one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched its impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
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