Top 25 Quotes by John Boyle OReilly of 34 - Page 2

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Boxing, Endurance, Rowdy

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Mother, Nurse, Ireland And The Irish

John Boyle O'Reilly (1907). “Watchwords”

Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Fighting, Exercise, Boys

John Boyle O'Reilly (1888). “Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport”

The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Art, Mean, Exercise

John Boyle O'Reilly (1888). “Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport”

Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Brother, Doubt, Despair

John Boyle O'Reilly (1907). “Watchwords”

A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Dream, Forever, Dreamer

John Boyle O'Reilly, Liam Barry (1994). “Selected poems, speeches, dedications and letters of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890”

They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Flying, Shore

John Boyle O'Reilly (1874). “Songs from the Southern Seas: And Other Poems”, p.190

Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Football, Exercise, Fighting