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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 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.

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

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

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

And we have a new era in boxing!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

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

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

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

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

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.

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

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

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

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

Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.

Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

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 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 always was corrupt and always will be corrupt. The three world champion's belts really are absurd. One single association would make this business more reputable. Just as powerful as the promoters, is the media. The cable networks control the cash flow. You can’t ignore the influence the media and the promoters have on the sport. They have a financial objective - high ratings, selling pay-per-views and selling out arenas. Because of the system, the public may not be seeing the best the sport has to offer, but what sells.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

Boxing is a business. I have been in the professional game for five years now - I'm not doing it for nothing. I am doing it so I can provide for my future family, so I can have a future. I am here to make money. And at the same time I'm the most exciting fighter in Britain, if not the world, in my opinion. I don't know anybody else in the game that does the things I do in the ring.

Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.

Boxing is just show business with blood.

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

Boxing is the gift I have been given for whatever reason and I'd love to honour God in everything I do.

Boxing is the sweet science. So if you want to begin in the grass roots of boxing where women are on the same level as guys, you are talking hundreds of years. Men have been boxing everyday all day for a hundred years. So it will take some time. You will need to bring more young girls into the gym starting at 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. And it would have to be 100,000 of them.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

Boxing won’t retire me, I will retire from boxing.

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.