Boxed Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Boxed Quotes from famous authors such as Joe Calzaghe, Corey Anderson, Dereck Chisora, Saweetie, Mona Eltahawy. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

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When I boxed against Jeff Lacy, that was one fight that I was so proud of.
Joe Calzaghe
2
I boxed, I was 2-0 as far as amateur boxing and it was fun but I didn’t really want to compete no more.
Corey Anderson
3
People who have never boxed before, never worked hard in boxing, and they are starting to come in and people forget about the real boxers.
Dereck Chisora
4
People had boxed me in as a ‘pretty girl with followers that’s rapping,’ but I think my project and the work speaks for itself.
Saweetie
5
Women of color have always been kind of boxed in by the idea that the more you talk about the misogyny of your own community, the more you make that community look bad.
Mona Eltahawy
6
In my younger days, I used to visit record shops and covet boxed sets of Beethoven symphonies, Wagner operas, Bach cantatas, Mozart piano concertos. Only rarely was I able to find the money for such luxuries.
Michael Dirda
7
It’s so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.
Jennifer Aniston
8
Some of the fighters I’ve boxed, I’ve forgot their names.
Dereck Chisora
9
I’ve boxed on with cuts, broken jaws, everything.
George Groves
10
Growing up people would tell me: ‘Yo, you only can do one thing. If you’re going to rap, just rap. If you’re going to sing, just sing.’ It boxed me in. But I just figured out a way to show everything. It’s like if you have a job interview, you want to present as many skills as you have.
Tierra Whack
11
Units were coming to combat with DCGS because it was their tool kit, so to speak, but they basically had it boxed up and parked in a corner. They were using off-the-shelf stuff they were having to buy prior to coming into the theater.
Michael T. Flynn
12
The thing that people don’t know about me – I actually boxed amateur for a few years.
Henry Cejudo
13
I’d love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience.
Josh Keaton
14
I’ve won junior titles, ABA titles and boxed for England all over the world against future Olympic champions as an amateur – and then beat world-class fighters as a professional.
George Groves
15
We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you’re this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.
Brit Marling
16
In my own life I studied music, not creative writing; I see a novel as music – an opening as an overture, themes and subplots as lines in a fugue. The chance to write a novel about a musician boxed in by all kinds of limitations but who plays out his ultimate struggle for freedom at the piano was irresistible.
Nicole Mones
17
I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn’t. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I’ve gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.
Rufus Sewell
18
I have always boxed better with a bit of nerves.
George Groves
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I really didn’t want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker – becoming the Maori story film-maker because I had made those short films.
Taika Waititi
20
I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.
Holt McCallany
21
I took my time with the sport of MMA. I wrestled, won the Olympics. I boxed for years.
Henry Cejudo
22
I personally pay, through the majority of my stock and through cash, college tuitions of our full-time employees’ kids. Life-changing events are generally covered by Boxed as well.
Chieh Huang
23
I’ve boxed many people in their own backyard plenty of times – in China, I boxed a Chinese girl in the final of the world championships, and I’ve boxed Russians before in their home nation as well.
Katie Taylor
24
I’m not getting into rooms for cis roles. I started my career auditioning for those roles, and then I went to play trans roles. And now, I feel boxed in.
Trace Lysette
25
Life is not simple, and people can’t be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
Jessica Hagedorn
26
I want to do interesting work, I don’t want to get boxed. A box is fruitful for a little while and then you get replaced.
Richa Chadha
27
In 2017, I boxed in front of a home crowd in Sheffield and became the WBA super-middleweight world champion. After four attempts I had finally fulfilled my childhood dream, and the experience was as great as I had always imagined it would be. It was without doubt the best moment of my career.
George Groves
28
I’ve never boxed before in my life. I’ve had one day’s training at a boxing gym, and it’s an incredibly difficult sport.
Rupert Penry-Jones
29
I had a daily 30 minute pushup routine. Then I boxed 3 times a week for about an hour. And then, I had the trainer come to my house an average of 1 to 2 times a week.
Cobie Smulders
30
You see these casting directors’ lists of characters, and they’re all boxed in. Twenties is the hot girlfriend, thirties you can still be hot but moving swiftly to hot mum. Forties, you’re the legal person in a pantsuit. Then, once you reach your fifties, you’re positively elderly.
Thandie Newton
31
I did get to keep the wedding dresses from ‘Runaway Bride’. They’re all boxed up in my garage. I’ve never opened them. It’ll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.
Julia Roberts
32
I’m just a regular dude from New Jersey. If Boxed is successful, and you take 90% of my money away, I’ll still be all right.
Chieh Huang
33
I don’t mind the wing-back role but I don’t like to feel boxed in defence. I like to be free, involved and scoring goals – that’s when I’m happiest.
Michail Antonio
34
After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.
Jacques Barzun
35
In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.
Kate Millett
36
Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.
Robert Webb
37
People have to see play as more important than what it currently is. We don’t want to get boxed into thinking play only happens on a playground. The best type of play is all kinds of play.
Darell Hammond
38
It’s the transformation that drives me. I want to do it all and never want to be boxed into something as a particular type or style. I never want people to think they know me. I hope to build a repertoire that one can look at and say, from to role to role, ‘Was that Brian Tee?’
Brian Tee
39
Black women in music are always expected to sing R&B or soul: we are always boxed in.
Bree Runway
40
I’ve always boxed, I always taught boxing.
Adam Carolla
41
I have the largest collection of Hulk memorabilia in the world – everything from toilet paper, wallpaper, bicycles – all boxed up at my house in Northern California. I’ve had it for so long, I think it might be time to sell it.
Lou Ferrigno
42
I’ve competitively boxed. It’s definitely Plan B for me, but I know how to box.
Chael Sonnen
43
One thing I love about America is that I’m not boxed in by my upbringing here. England is still so class-based that there are certain roles that I just won’t go for. I’m a middle-class boy and I won’t go for the scruffy working-class role, which is frustrating, and here I can play anything.
Tom Payne
44
I’m somebody from a little tiny town, who had boxed in leisure centres, and my last fight was in Madison Square Garden against one of the greats. What a great way to finish off.
Joe Calzaghe
45
Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he… in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn’t sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner.
Nina Easton
46
I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn’t get a job.
Mickey Rourke
47
I boxed till my late 30s, so 47, that’s impossible really to be at your best and if you aren’t at your best you shouldn’t be boxing.
Carl Froch
48
No artiste wants to be boxed. We thrive on challenging roles, and they can come from anywhere. I consider myself blessed to be recognised as a pan-Indian actor. Yes, it means more hard work, prepping more for the roles, but I’m all for it.
Aditi Rao Hydari
49
I don’t want to be boxed in or looked at a certain way, as in, ‘Yo, he’s an Asian rapper.’
Rich Brian
50
I don’t know if I’m an action star or if that’s just how things are shaping up. I would hate to be boxed into that forever, but it’s probably just a strength as far as my type goes, and I’m fine with that.
Jai Courtney
51
We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don’t want to do it yet. I want to wait until we’re 45 and we’re bitter and broke. Then, we’ll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.
Gene Ween
52
The Government has boxed itself in by trying to codge together this weird fake Brexit in the hope of committing people to somehow delivering on the referendum result.
Jo Johnson
53
My Grandad boxed.
Luke Campbell
54
It’s a reality that you get boxed and stereotyped, but I am not afraid of that. It’s my quest as an actor to explore different territories.
Vicky Kaushal
55
The ultimate goal is to be the leader in mobile commerce. I’m not just saying revenues; if you’re trying to find a good experience of buying something on your phone, I want you to automatically think, ‘Boxed has one of the best, if not the best, experiences of buying something on your mobile device.’
Chieh Huang
56
I boxed 15 years in a club.
Uwe Boll
57
As an artist, I would never let myself get boxed in. I’m a human being, too, and like most humans, I have interest in many different types of music.
Mike Patton
58
I don’t think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
Eddie Huang
59
I’m a martial artist. I’ve boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.
Laz Alonso
60
Being bullied is the reason I got into boxing. When I was 14, I was being bullied by a kid in junior high school. I wanted to do this the right way. So we went to a boxing gym. We boxed, I beat him up in the ring. He never bullied me again and I found my passion in the sport of boxing.
Daniel Jacobs
61
I’ve earned some decent money, and bragging rights, and boxed on a Floyd Mayweather undercard in Vegas… but it’s a fraction of what I set out to do.
George Groves
62
Before ‘Cinderella Man,’ I didn’t box. But I boxed. It’s possible. You go and you work hard at things.
Craig Bierko
63
The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don’t like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.
La’Porsha Renae
64
I work out at Will Space four times a week. It’s a private training gym. It’s owned by my trainer, Will Torres. I just came from there, actually. I turned Mark Consuelos onto Will, so he goes there too. Today we boxed. It’s every kind of cross-training you can do.
Andy Cohen
65
I boxed until I got interested in other things. My first car. Girls.
Tommy Morrison
66
I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.
Frank Grillo