Top 100 Boxing's Quotes
#1. Boxing's given me the chance to travel around the world and open the door and the world is much brighter.
Vitali Klitschko
#2. Boxing's not that straightforward," said Eldric. "You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.
Franny Billingsley
#3. I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.
Muhammad Ali
#4. Boxing's all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds.
Frank Bruno
#5. Training's training; boxing's boxing. Everyone does the same kind of stuff: they spar, they train, they do whatever they do to prepare for fights.
Tyson Fury
#6. The boxing's the easy part. When you get into the ring to fight, that's the vacation. But when you get in the gym, you have to do things over and over till you're sore and deep in your mind you say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' I push that out of my mind.
Mike Tyson
#7. Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#8. Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career.
Chris Penn
#9. Boxing's an art, it's a science, and you don't go out to knock people out. If they happen to get knocked out, they happen to run into one of these bricks by mistake [looks at his fists], that's their fault.
Roy Jones Jr.
#11. Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.
Muhammad Ali
#12. My favorite was going as a boxer when I was 9 years old and wearing my dad's boxing gear.
John Molina Jr.
#13. Tex Rickard started his career staging boxing matches for Nome's miners, then moved on to New York and built Madison Square Garden, becoming one
Gay Salisbury
#14. Every man's got to figure out how to get beat sometime.
Joe Louis
#15. 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.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#16. A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.
Sonny Liston
#17. You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?
Don King
#18. You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change on a week-to-week basis. Those are the things that I do with every character. If I'm involved in a boxing movie, I go see fights and learn about boxing. It's part of what we do.
Jimmy Smits
#19. Boxing begins in illusion and ends in real blood and tears. That's what makes it so beautiful.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#20. Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look weak and stupid in front of 17 million people. That's just not gonna happen.
Dustin Diamond
#21. I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to push me over, like ball-handling, passing, boxing out when I'm setting screens. Little things like that that you would overlook that can make me a complete player.
Derrick Rose
#22. That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. That's what takes people out of the fight half the time.
David O. Russell
#23. I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me.
James Toney
#24. I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.
Louis C.K.
#25. On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!'
Jake LaMotta
#26. Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more high-stakes shadow-boxing in the netherworld of the world's most elaborate system of censorship.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#27. There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.
George Foreman
#28. Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit.
Don King
#29. I'm a big fan of spinning and yoga. To strengthen my core, kick-boxing is really effective. The resistance tones everything, and it's a great stress reliever.
Katrina Bowden
#30. Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!
Charlie Flynn
#31. This kid deserves anything good that happens to him. He's such a good guy. He's just the nicest human being you want to meet.
Angelo Dundee
#32. It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy
Mike Tyson
#33. Boxing great Mike Tyson said "a happy fighter is a dangerous fighter." I think he's right.
Ronda Rousey
#34. There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#35. 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.
Sergio Martinez
#36. I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.
Adrien Broner
#37. Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.
Sugar Ray Robinson
#38. I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do
Mike Tyson
#39. If you're dedicated to something and you put the time in, why should anyone have an opinion on it? Halif of the people who comment about women's boxing don't even watch it.
Claressa Shields
#40. Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.
Bob Arum
#41. Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
Muhammad Ali
#43. I like Sergio Martinez. I think he's strong, he's gritty, he's got plenty of heart, he's not the fanciest guy you might have seen in boxing but he has the goods to be around a long time in the Middleweight division.
Bernard Hopkins
#44. 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.
Ishmael Reed
#45. I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
T. J. Thyne
#46. I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.
Stephen Colbert
#47. Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.
George Johnson
#48. 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.
Angelo Dundee
#49. My father was always suppressing the softer side of my nature; it seemed to have disappeared in the course of those boxing lessons, that's what boxing did to me. My father took away the real me and replaced all what I could have been by imposing his brutal regime of terror upon me.
Stephen Richards
#50. I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
Aimee Mann
#51. I do believe he's the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he's one of the greatest men I've ever met.
George Foreman
#52. We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships.
Shawn Anthony Levy
#53. That's all they said was wrong with me?
Mike Tyson
#54. Who Killed Davey Moore? Why and what's the reason for?
Bob Dylan
#55. That's good. You see, boxing and writing are very similar. You get in the guard position, you decide to throw yourself into battle, you lift your fists, and you hurl yourself at your opponent. A book is more or less the same. A book is a battle.
Joel Dicker
#57. It's hard to know what's gay in life. Boxing. That's two men fighting over a belt.
Demetri Martin
#58. You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.
Sugar Ray Robinson
#59. There's a lot of dangerous sports. You know, my opinion, football is the most dangerous sport there is. After that I'll give it to probably boxing. Then there's some other extreme sports out there, motocross where you're really risking your neck every time you go out there and do it.
Jon Jones
#60. Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
Muhammad Ali
#61. As soon as I get time, I want to start to do some fight training. I tried a little boxing once with my personal trainer back in L.A. - it's such a good workout, and it's a good skill to have, especially in my industry, since sometimes you have to do stunts and fight scenes.
Katia Winter
#62. I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.
Shayne Ward
#63. 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.
Don King
#64. I think that every boxer should understand he's on the pedestal for a short span. It's best that you use boxing and don't let boxing use you. Use boxing to sell, because people are selling you through your boxing career, so you have to learn to sell yourself, and you'll never starve.
George Foreman
#65. Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people move.
Channing Tatum
#66. As my future crumbled before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. My entire life's struggle was ending here, in plain view of my enemies. How was it possible? Had had I let things come to this?
Tony McMahon
#67. I've never boxed before in my life. I've had one day's training at a boxing gym, and it's an incredibly difficult sport.
Rupert Penry-Jones
#68. I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only about physical force. You use a lot of concentration; it's really mental.
Adriana Lima
#69. The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.
Manny Pacquiao
#70. It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches.
Don Roff
#71. 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.
Kevin Gates
#72. In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.
Andre Ward
#73. I love to do Pilates, boxing and even just going on a run. I do cardio twice a week as it's important for people who want to eat lots like me! I do Pilates ones a week.
Irina Shayk
#74. I can't watch a [Floyd] Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting. I used to watch boxing in the [Michael] Tyson era when it was exciting. Now it's all bob and weave, a punch here and there. It is not entertaining.
Usain Bolt
#75. Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.
Muhammad Ali
#76. Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing.
Anthony Liccione
#77. There ain't nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in your mouthpiece. Five seconds to go, the boom! The bell. It's more exciting than looking down a cliff.
George Foreman
#78. If you think you're in shape, try boxing. You'll discover that you are not. It's the most physically challenging thing I've ever attempted, but I love it and I want to keep up some of the training.
Seth Numrich
#79. I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end.
Mitch Hedberg
#80. New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
John Cusack
#81. 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.
Steven Yeun
#82. All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
Jack Dempsey
#83. Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.
George Foreman
#84. 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.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#85. The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.
Mika.
#86. I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your ass. You know?
Mike Tyson
#88. Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.
Mike Tyson
#89. No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
Muhammad Ali
#90. There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#91. You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal.
Don King
#92. I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.
Milla Jovovich
#93. What's his name? I tried to forget him because if he would have fought like he worked with my guy he would have knocked the guy out.
Angelo Dundee
#94. There's one thing I remember about Muhammad Ali. He said "I don't like my condition, but if this is what the Good Lord has planned for me to deal with, I'm happy with that." You have to understand, that comes from my idol, one of the guys that got me started in boxing.
Roy Jones Jr.
#95. 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.
Jimmy Smits
#96. When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.
Don King
#97. The NBA has a voice that's why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that's why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that's individually represented the individual people - Managers, Promoters and Boxers.
Bernard Hopkins
#98. There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.
Joe Rogan
#99. 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.
Alexis Arguello
#100. People say it's a movie about boxing, but ... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.
Morgan Freeman
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