Good Boxing Quotes

#1. A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

Robert Baden-Powell

#2. All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#3. You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.

Gerry Cooney

#4. In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, 'This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for'. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.

George Foreman

#5. I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.

Muhammad Ali

#6. I'm not a big drinker. I don't really drink at all. But my dad and his pals will want to have a good swally because their nerves will be in some state, man!

Charlie Flynn

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

Tommy Farr

#8. The style I have in judo is very unique ... One big advantage a judo player has is they have very good posture and - like, wrestlers, they show when they're about to do a take-down ... which judo players don't, and so I kind of incorporate the boxing style with a judo grip and finishing that way.

Ronda Rousey

#9. When you spar in boxing, the only thing that gets hurt is your brain. Everything else feels pretty good.

Jonathan Gottschall

#10. For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.

Molly Sims

#11. Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events ... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

LeRoy Neiman

#12. I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

Joe Louis

#13. The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.

Dan Jenkins

#14. If I was mentoring a young fighter, I'd tell him to spend more time on boxing. That doesn't mean I would ignore kickboxing - you still need to learn the defenses - but in stand-up, it's hard to beat good, solid boxing.

Chael Sonnen

#15. It's all about one split-second. Boxing is a funny thing. You blink your eyes and somebody says good night to you.

Kostya Tszyu

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

Joe Louis

#17. The mere fact that a boxer covers his face never means that he is much afraid of his opponent. A good punch will give a better explanation for his action!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#18. Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.

Evander Holyfield

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

Sugar Ray Leonard

#20. For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I'd like to continue to see them push the realism, emphasizing the skill involved.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#21. 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.

Dick Schaap

#22. You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.

Cain Velasquez

#23. Stop moving around.'
'Your opponent"
Daniel panted
"isn't going to stand still and just let you hit him.' He held his boxing mitts out in front of him, welcoming a new attack.
He would if he knew what was good for him.

Bree Despain

#24. Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.

Alexis Arguello

#25. I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.

Muhammad Ali

#26. The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.

Evander Holyfield

#27. Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?

Tony Galento

#28. Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

Amnat Ruenroeng

#29. For what good does it do us to guide a horse and control his speed with the curb, and then find that our own passions, utterly uncurbed, bolt with us? Or to beat many opponents in wrestling or boxing, and then to find that we ourselves are beaten by anger?

Seneca.

#30. I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

George Foreman

#31. 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

#32. Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike.

Muhammad Ali

#33. The integration of a headgear in professional boxing would do so much to make it safer for young men. They could go into the sport, make a lot of money and then come out and be good grandfathers.

George Foreman

#34. In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

Joseph Barbera

#35. 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

#36. I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end

Mike Tyson

#37. I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.

Norman Mailer

#38. To be the first Puerto Rican to win a world title in four divisions would be an achievement. Gomez, Benitez, there have been a lot of good fighters from Puerto Rico before me. When I started boxing, Tito Trinidad was our big star.

Miguel Cotto

#39. That was a good fight back in the gym," he said.
"But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing
lessons.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black

Joe Frazier

#44. 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

#45. Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.

Muhammad Ali

#46. I liked that title. I didn't want to lose it to anybody, but if I had to lose it, I'm glad I lost it to you. You're a good fighter and gonna be a great champ.

Jersey Joe Walcott

#47. Hey ma, your bad boy did good!

Rocky Graziano

#48. 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

#49. 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.

#50. 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.

Tomoki Kameda

#51. If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them.

Muhammad Ali

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

George Foreman

#53. You are aware that I have some proficiency in the good old British sport of boxing.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#54. The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

Joe Frazier

#55. That'd be good. That'd be a right good laugh, man. Ye cannae catch me shuttin' up, man

Charlie Flynn