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Ever since I've been boxing, it's always been the case that when I go inside the ring a switch goes off and my attitude changes totally from the person I am outside it. I really can't explain why or how.

Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better.

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.

Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken...I want to live forever...I refuse to lose...I would have to be carried out dead to lose...I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done.

Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.

Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.

Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.

First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.

Floyd Mayweather is bigger than the sport. That's the thing. Because you can go to somebody who don't even know what boxing is and say, "Floyd Mayweather." They'll go, "Oh, I know Floyd Mayweather. I've heard that name.

Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

For me, boxing isn't about hurting each other. Boxing is entertainment and making people happy.

For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town

Got any excuses tonight Roy?

Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.

Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head

He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts.

He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.

He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.

He looks up through blood smeared lips.

He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life

He was crying in there, making woman gestures.

He was screaming like my wife.

Hey ma, your bad boy did good!

He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him.

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

His credibility is zilch, virtually nil.

How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.

Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.

Honey, I just forgot to duck.

Hopefully, some day I help some of this up-and-coming talent and promote them. Boxing is growing and is here to stay.

How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him