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I start a boxing movie and that's kind of something I've been able to get to the gym for. It's great anytime you can parallel a skill that your character has. I just think it makes it even more rewarding.

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

I started boxing one day a week to experience aggression, which has been really interesting.

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

I started boxing late but I've always been a fighter all my life.

It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

It brings me great grief and sadness to hear of the passing of one of the best and most respected trainers of this era, Emanuel Steward. I learned a lot from him during our professional relationship and I will be forever grateful for his help during that time. We were also friends and I know I am going to miss him as so many others will too. He was an important part of our boxing community.

It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10

I think boxing is an incredible sport and I would like to see it really become regulated because I think it could bring back a lot of the past.

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

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

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.

It hurts me because of what he's doing to boxing. Because one of the most important world titles is at stake now. The champion has to defend it against the best.

It hurt to even bump into him.

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 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 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.

I think the media, the boxing public hasn't seen me at my best simply because great opposition brings out the best in you.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.