Best 682 quotes in «boxing quotes» category

Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.

Come December 8th his ass gone be hurt. He aint fought 43 Floyd Mayweathers.

Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.

Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.

Count 10 over him - he'll get up

Democrats' desperate attempt to focus on campaign finance reform instead of laws that may have been broken by the Clinton-Gore campaign is like Mike Tyson demanding a reform in boxing regulations after biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear.

Dempsey could beat anybody he could hit. The only reason that he couldn't do anything with fellows like Tunney or Greb or myself was he couldn't hit us.

Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.

Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!

Don King sucks...Don King sucks...Don King sucks.

Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage

Don King is the best snake oil salesman I ever met. The absolute best.

Don King is a hip exploiter, an intelligent flesh peddler

Don King was good to me through my years as champion, but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He's a wheeler dealer and you've got to be careful. He's a great con artist.

[Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he was right about everything.

Do you recognise me?" he asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognise you.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Got any excuses tonight Roy?

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

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.