Best 682 quotes in «boxing quotes» category

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.

I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

I was so good at boxing because I worked hard. I worked harder than anybody. When other boxers used to box in the gym, three or four rounds, I used to box 10-20 rounds.

I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue with boxing exhibitions.

Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

King's an equal opportunity dirtbag, he screws everybody.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.

Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.

Let's get ready to rumble!

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

Lie down so I can recognise you

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.

Look at my body. Does it look like I sue steroids?

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

Mexican style of boxing training is different from what my father had trained me. It was good for me because it was an added knowledge, an addition to my boxing IQ.

Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted time daily to bicycling and shadow-boxing, followed by a cold douche and a brisk rub down?

Michael seems to have lost his values temporarily. He just has to be worked with, disciplined and talked to and given some tender loving care and understanding.

Mike Tyson fit the American ideal of a boxer. A fighter who jumps out of his corner and hits out fiercely. That’s what he’'ll be remembered for. But good boxing doesn’t work like that. Tyson never won on points. It was clear that he’'d come a cropper some day.

Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.

Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.

Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.

Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.

My favorite was going as a boxer when I was 9 years old and wearing my dad's boxing gear.

My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish

Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?

Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.

Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him.

Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

My diet - I eat nutritionally-balanced meals. I work out. I do yoga. I love my yoga. I do boxing training because it's fun.

My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book of essays appeared: it was compared to Muhammad Ali's style.

My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

My way of joking is to tell the truth

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!