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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Joyce Carol Oates
Boxing, Religion, Celebration
Joyce Carol Oates (1987). “On boxing”, Dolphin Books

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

Joyce Carol Oates
Pain, Winning, Boxing
Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.25, Harper Collins

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

Joyce Carol Oates
Men, Boxing, Rings
"On Boxing". Book by Joyce Carol Oates, 1987.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

Joyce Carol Oates
Sports, Boxing, Connections
Joyce Carol Oates (1987). “On boxing”, Dolphin Books

I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for 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 it's 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
Life, Boxing, Goes On
Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.4, Harper Collins

Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

Joyce Carol Oates
Boxing, Life Is Like, Life Is
"On Boxing". Book by Joyce Carol Oates, 1987.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Joyce Carol Oates
Sports, America, Boxing
Joyce Carol Oates (1987). “On boxing”, Dolphin Books

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.

Joyce Carol Oates
Loyalty, Sports, Boxing
Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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