Irish - Athlete | February 28, 1961 -
A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
Barry McGuigan
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It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.
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The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
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Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.
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250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.
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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
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