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After 14 years in boxing, the best decision I could have made was to take the last year off. My mind was not in boxing, but since I got here with Freddie, everything is working perfectly again. Boxing is all I know. Boxing is my life. Through boxing, I raised my family and I work to provide the best future for them. They are the reason I love boxing.

Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it.

A great champion needs a background in amateur boxing, I’'m convinced of that. There you learn everything that you’ll need later as a pro. Someone who’s got more than 400 amateur fights behind him no longer gets nervous before going into the ring and doesn’t lose his nerve during a fight. You know all the boxing styles, you’re prepared for anything, you’ve got the pedigree that you need to be a successful pro.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps

All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do

All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

And we have a new era in boxing!

A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em

and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.

An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

As long as there's this welfare state of ours we're not going to have any good fighters

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

AWWW ON THE MAIL. The mail man delivers, once again!

At noon I get to the gym to do my boxing workout. Three hours there. Rest. Once in a while I get a massage, because I need it once in while.

Battle rap is a culture. That's boxing, it's like boxing.

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 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 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 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.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.

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.