Best 682 quotes in «boxing quotes» category

It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable.

I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.

I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.

I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.

I try to find out what the guy's strengths and weaknesses are. Like in boxing, I'd be a counter-puncher. Whatever he does well, I try to take advantage of what he doesn't do well.

It’s all about one split-second. Boxing is a funny thing…you blink your eyes and somebody says ‘Goodnight’ to you.

It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

It's hard to get up at 6am when you're wearing silk pyjamas.

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.

It's not bragging if you can back it up.

It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in.

It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy

It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

It's only boxing, don't worry about it. Let's get it on!

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

It was a sucker punch. But you know who gets hit by sucker punches? Suckers.

I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.

I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.

I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.

I've been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu all my life. Boxing, kickboxing. I'm definitely not a fighter, but I defend my honor.

I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again

I've fought everybody without ducking anyone. I have beaten 10 undefeated guys, and I never was comparing myself to the greatest in the sport. I was not thinking of breaking any records. I'm just enjoying my time in boxing.

I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set - and they're both working.

I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him.

I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight.

I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.

I've never had any intentions of taking a break (from boxing).

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

I wanted to be prepared and be strong for any unexpected challenges, so from the beginning I was doing kick-boxing. I was wearing a sauna suit everyday, I was wearing sea goggles, I was wearing gloves. I was trying to put myself through the worst condition ever and most of the training sessions I was puking up.

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.

I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. Its always been a part of me.

I want to keep fighting because it's the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.

I was a gorilla boxer. I had a full gorilla suit on with boxing gloves. I had an amateur belt on. No one knew that it was me in the costume and I was going into stores and scaring people and boxing on them. It was fun.

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.

I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.

I was so good at boxing because I worked hard. I worked harder than anybody. When other boxers used to box in the gym, three or four rounds, I used to box 10-20 rounds.