Mikey Garcia

As the fighter, you're the one getting in the ring, you're the one risking injuries, you're the one risking your life - not only on the day of the fight, but in training camp. You're getting punched, you're training, you're sparring. You have to make sure that it's worth the risk - the compensation, the terms, the fights that you want.

American Author

Nick Harkaway

I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.

English Novelist

George Foreman

We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody's gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.

American Boxer

Mirko Cro Cop

Now I am training with sparring partners who are nice people, sure, but not my friends. These are sparring partners who want to knock me out in sparring. In the Croatian media, they said it was 'life and death' sparring - it was not quite life and death, but it was all-out fighting, very hard.

Croatian Athlete

Chris Eubank Jr.

There's a very big difference between being fit and being fight fit. Sparring is the only way to get fight fit. It's a very important part of boxing and something that I do as regularly as possible.

British Athlete

Jason Statham

I don't do isolation body building; I just do practical things that help me with the kind of things that are asked of me in action movies. You know, a lot of kick boxing, a lot of sparring.

British Actor

Joe Rogan

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

American Comedian

Jim Elliot

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

American Clergyman

Adrien Broner

I will never let another man disrespect me. I don't care if we sparring or fighting.

American Athlete

Golda Meir

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Israeli Leader

Used when people debate in a friendly or teasing manner rather than with hostility.

Playful Argument

'Spar' indicates a practice exchange and does not suggest real anger or intent to harm.

Not Actual Fighting

A technical term used in sailing contexts to describe a part of the ship's equipment.

Nautical Term

In maritime contexts, 'spar' is often used to imply support and stability for sails.

Structural Support

Refers specifically to training in combat sports in a controlled and non-aggressive way.

Friendly Boxing

Used to describe an activity aimed at honing skills without full force or the risk of injury.

Skill Improvement

In geology, 'spar' refers to a type of mineral known for its distinctive luster and cleavage.

Geological Use

Commonly used in the context of mining, describing materials extracted from the earth.

Appears in Mining

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 In our practice, this sometimes means openly sparring with a client to carve out public space, or inventing stealthy, under-the-radar ways of insinuating space for the public into otherwise private building projects. Either way, all democracies need champions.

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 but then a conversation would ensue. And it was civil -- full of genuine curiosity on both sides. How had the other come to such outrageous conclusions about the world? Sometimes the conversation even bled into real life. People I'd sparred with on Twitter

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 they still have a lot to learn both sexes have to know how to fight the females to protect themselves from unwanted advances the males to take or defend a territory and siblings make excellent sparring

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 female is to protect themselves from unwanted advances the males to take or defend a territory and siblings make excellent sparring partners