Best 682 quotes in «boxing quotes» category

We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last.

We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships.

Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything.

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.

Well, that's cricket Harry. These things happen in boxing

We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.

What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?

What really amazed me was when I sent a suit out for cleaning, forgetting that $700 was in the pocket. They sent the suit back to me. If that happened in New York, both money and suit would be gone.

What's his name? I tried to forget him because if he would have fought like he worked with my guy he would have knocked the guy out.

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

When Don King's fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses.

When God wants me to lose, then that's when I'll lose. But until then, I'm going to be at the top of my game and keep working hard anddedicating myself to the sport of boxing and to being the best entertainer that I can be.

When I had a boxing match, all I wanted to do was put the guy on his back. That's why I chose to chase after MMA.

When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

When it comes to boxing I find a way to clear my mind. When it comes to boxing you have to fight. Clear your mind and fight. You can't really think of outside things when you're in the ring.

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

When my title was taken away boxing died.

When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.

When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.

When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.

When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.

Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

While wrestling in college as a junior it came to a point where wrestling just wasn't enough for me anymore. I love wrestling, but I felt like I was missing something, and so the striking part about MMA, the boxing and kickboxing, was what got me really interested in MMA. I saw it on TV and I just knew that I wanted to do it.

Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?

Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

Wow. I'm humbled and I'm honored. To be in the International Boxing Hall of Fame with so many of my friends and heroes is overwhelming.

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and all those guys. Because they were older than me and I was doing my thing.

Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?

Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.

You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.

You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change on a week-to-week basis. Those are the things that I do with every character. If I'm involved in a boxing movie, I go see fights and learn about boxing. It's part of what we do.

You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.

You're talkin' legit here.

You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?

You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.