Best 682 quotes in «boxing quotes» category

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

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

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

Got any excuses tonight Roy?

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

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

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

He looks up through blood smeared lips.

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

He was crying in there, making woman gestures.

He was screaming like my wife.

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

Hey ma, your bad boy did good!

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

His credibility is zilch, virtually nil.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am a guy that does a million other things in addition to boxing. I have a lot of other stuff that I have been into my entire career and I have put all of that on hold now I am doing more stuff involving the actual promotion of the fight like doing interviews and making appearances.

I always urge people to do something different, so for instance find something that you have secretly always wanted to try like dancing or boot camps or boxing, and Google search and put your zip code in and find a location- a class or trainer that teaches that in your area.

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

I am already inducted into the female boxing hall of fame and I don't know if the International Boxing Hall of Fame has any females in it. I don't know and if I don't, I'm ok with it. At this time in my life I understand that. I never want to say I'm the greatest fighter as a female.

I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end

I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.

I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.

I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

I am proud to be in Los Angeles. I have a lot of fans that love me here. When you talk about the Meccas of boxing - Las Vegas, New York - now you have to talk about Los Angeles.

I can only see it going one way, that's my way. How it's actually going to go I can't really say.

I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.

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.

I cant believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to.

I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.

I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating

I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.

I can't say that I ever worried much about what people thought or said of me. I like to be liked, and have often wished that I could be as much loved as Jim Driscoll, say, but I have never been able to bow down to rules and regulations

I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.

I come from a boxing background. Three generations of boxers. I personally hate to fight, but I love the science of boxing. Mind, body. So for me, shadow boxing or hitting the heavy bag is something that gets me in a centered state. It's calming for me. To me, boxing isn't about the other person. It's about me. My inner struggles. It works for me.

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.