Best 682 quotes in «boxing quotes» category

Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Boxing changed my life. It's like a drug; you can't believe how great it is! Let me tell you something, you hit somebody on the chin, the guy goes down, the crowd roars...Wow! You really feel something!

Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.

Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.

Boxing and chess are similar. It’s about the choice of means. Sometimes I need a pawn, a bishop or a knight to defeat my opponent. It’s about finding the best way. A good boxer has to be variable. He doesn’t just need to know how to punch. He must also know how to protect himself, how to defend, how to avoid the opponent’s punches. Only a complete fighter can become champion.

Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Boxing is a great way to vent. I don't know if there is a better way, I think for women too. There is something so primal about it and it's the best exercise in the world, even if you don't ever get in the ring.

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.

Boxing is a place where, if you haven't done the training, that's going to be exposed very quickly.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.

Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.

Boxing is not for killing each other.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Boxing is strange to watch. It's impossible to take your eyes off of it. Part of our brains like to watch violence. At the same time, it's horrifying to watch two men try to knock each other out.

Boxing kept me out of the streets, by giving me something to do. And it gave me a father figure in the coach that was there for me. I just reiterated what my mother was trying to teach me about focusing and getting my life together.

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

Boxing's given me the chance to travel around the world and open the door and the world is much brighter.

Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.

Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing.

Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

Boxing is show-business with blood.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.

Boxing always was corrupt and always will be corrupt. The three world champion's belts really are absurd. One single association would make this business more reputable. Just as powerful as the promoters, is the media. The cable networks control the cash flow. You can’t ignore the influence the media and the promoters have on the sport. They have a financial objective - high ratings, selling pay-per-views and selling out arenas. Because of the system, the public may not be seeing the best the sport has to offer, but what sells.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

Boxing is a business. I have been in the professional game for five years now - I'm not doing it for nothing. I am doing it so I can provide for my future family, so I can have a future. I am here to make money. And at the same time I'm the most exciting fighter in Britain, if not the world, in my opinion. I don't know anybody else in the game that does the things I do in the ring.

Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.

Boxing is just show business with blood.

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

Boxing is the gift I have been given for whatever reason and I'd love to honour God in everything I do.

Boxing is the sweet science. So if you want to begin in the grass roots of boxing where women are on the same level as guys, you are talking hundreds of years. Men have been boxing everyday all day for a hundred years. So it will take some time. You will need to bring more young girls into the gym starting at 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. And it would have to be 100,000 of them.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

Boxing won’t retire me, I will retire from boxing.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

Boxing is a business and if it makes sense, other than my brother (Anthony), damn right I'll fight him.

Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.

Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind.

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.