Best 682 quotes in «boxing quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

He was crying in there, making woman gestures.

He was screaming like my wife.

He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him.

His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.

Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.

Honey, I just forgot to duck.

How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.

I don't fight for nobody else because Don King has made me money. Yet I hear people saying Don King is exploiting me. I made $15.5 million with Don. How would you like to be exploited and make $15.5 million?

I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.

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

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

He looks up through blood smeared lips.

He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life

Hey ma, your bad boy did good!

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

His credibility is zilch, virtually nil.

Hopefully, some day I help some of this up-and-coming talent and promote them. Boxing is growing and is here to stay.

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

I always urge people to do something different, so for instance find something that you have secretly always wanted to try like dancing or boot camps or boxing, and Google search and put your zip code in and find a location- a class or trainer that teaches that in your area.

I am a guy that does a million other things in addition to boxing. I have a lot of other stuff that I have been into my entire career and I have put all of that on hold now I am doing more stuff involving the actual promotion of the fight like doing interviews and making appearances.

I am already inducted into the female boxing hall of fame and I don't know if the International Boxing Hall of Fame has any females in it. I don't know and if I don't, I'm ok with it. At this time in my life I understand that. I never want to say I'm the greatest fighter as a female.

I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.

I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end

I am proud to be in Los Angeles. I have a lot of fans that love me here. When you talk about the Meccas of boxing - Las Vegas, New York - now you have to talk about Los Angeles.

I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.

I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.

I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

I can only see it going one way, that's my way. How it's actually going to go I can't really say.

I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating

I cant believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to.

I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.