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In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

In boxing, you never know who you're going to face in the ring.

In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there.

In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, "This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for". No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.

I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20. I never watched a boxing match life in my life. The only boxer I had ever heard of was Muhammad Ali.

I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate authority. . . . In Scott's incisive blend of art history, sociology, and sports writing, he makes a daring and original statement about fighters and the artists who enshrined them.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me.

I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid?

I run, but boxing conditioning is different, so you have to get used to running in the ring. Boxing movements are very different. Swimming is one of the best because every single muscle is working. I swim a lot. I train very hard at things that mimic boxing. I have to do mostly sport-specific training, such as lots of sparring.

I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.

I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy

It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.