Best 682 quotes in «boxing quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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 not bragging if you can back it up.

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

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

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

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

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

It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in.

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

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

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

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

I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad

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

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.

I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. Its always been a part of me.

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

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

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

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

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 wanted to be prepared and be strong for any unexpected challenges, so from the beginning I was doing kick-boxing. I was wearing a sauna suit everyday, I was wearing sea goggles, I was wearing gloves. I was trying to put myself through the worst condition ever and most of the training sessions I was puking up.

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.