Chris Eubank Sr. Quotes

Chris Eubank Sr.

Profession : Athlete

Birth : August 8, 1966

Broccoli is not as bad as people make out. It might give you wind, but I'd prefer to have wind and have good health. Health is the number one thing on the planet. However, I am quite partial to rum and raisin ice cream.

Chris Eubank Sr.

To be exceptional you have to be alone, that's the life of a warrior.

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Obsession is a synonym for magic. Magic is a synonym for genius. It's a knack. It's an aptitude.

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No one escapes the long arm of the law, they are a business, they are very good at what they do and eventually they will catch up with you.

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The feeling between two fighters is profound. We go places where normal people don't go. You smell a man's blood, it smells like rust. You get into a clench, you feel his strength, you feel his desperation, he feels yours. You're sharing this.

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If you choose to do something that you know you cannot do, or that is going to be very difficult, then you are a fool!

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I'm a good man and a bad fighter... I've got the gladiator in me.

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You play football, rugby, tennis. You do not play boxing. When a sportsperson is in a game, when it gets too much, you quit. But in boxing you can't quit. You have to be taken out.

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My father, who was illiterate, smoothed iron for Ford Dagenham and we'd get up at 5;30 A.M. to give him a jump-start. My mother was a nurse and part of the Windrush generation. Growing up in east London, we were financially poor, but rich in hope and dignity, and we were happy.

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My father never played with me. I can remember my father picking me up - once. I can remember my father telling me behind a closed door that he loved me - once.

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Boxing is a mug's game.

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It's the only thing that allowed me to win so many championship fights and allowed me to put up with the bigotry of the media, the keyboard warriors, the critics. I've endured it all because, spiritually, I am buoyant, alive.

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I was a speed freak once. I had an Aston Martin when I first made it big and I used to take it to its limits. I once drove from Lewes to London in 45 minutes - mad.

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I admire rugged hard men who play rugby because it's something I would never contemplate.

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Bankruptcy, divorce, these are feathers in my cap, I suppose. I have a wisdom which has been born from these things.

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Every fighter has a duty to boxing to not bring themselves or the sport into disrepute by foul language or behaviour so that boxing can be seen as a gentleman's sport.

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To be accused of ignoring my roots is pig ignorant.

Chris Eubank Sr.

I moved to New York aged 16, and worked part-time in a Korean store in South Bronx selling groceries, bread and confectionery. I earned $10 and it was painful because I didn't want to be there. I also worked in Debenhams as a kid, and a Wimpy in Brighton when I was 20.

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I am always fully in tune with the interviewer, who is usually trying to make me look silly. My objective is quite the opposite during an interview: I never use my wit or my intellect to make the interviewer look silly.

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When I finished boxing, all that was available was commentating. But that's not me. I've got too much artistic licence to get out.

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