Why did you start?

[Youngblood]

Boxing has been an interest of mine for a long time. It's only been recently that I've made the commitment to go to a gym with my intention on competing.

A kid from my gym the other day asked me if I'm going to be a pro boxer like the guys on the posters. I said, I'll see. If I can get good enough, anything can happen.

I believe in visualizing things, then taking the necessary steps to getting there. Chances are, if you can't ever see yourself getting to some sort of pinnacle...you likely won't get there. Now dreaming it alone isn't going to do it..but without the dream I doubt much more would materialize.

Life would be sorta boring too, I think...if we were to contantly set limitations upon ourselves, not to mention unfullfilling. Used this quote before, but I like it, so....

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

-Theodore Roosevelt

[DickDangleberry]

My sisters ex-boyfriend hit my sister one night giving her a black eye and I couldn't do anything about it. I wanted revenge to be honest, but I fell in love with the sport, like the rest of you guys.

As good a reason as any.
One thing the sport gives you is the ability to move past base survival,instead of fighting to survive you can look at a guy and think,"I could kick seven kinds of crap out of you,but I choose not to"

I agree. I'm far from a very good boxer but knowing that I've now had fists thrown at me more than the regular man gives me confidence in being able to look after myself. I don't think I'll panic as much if it ever happens (i've not been in a fight yet and I would like to keep it as such).

That and the fact that I'll be able to run away for faster and longer

[W1NKY]

i started becuase steve foster jr was at my house 1 day cuz hes friends with my dad. but this was the fist time i had seen him n was amazed 2 think he was a pro boxer so i asked him wat gym he went he told me olivers told me the days its open n ive been boxing since and had 23 amatuer fights