Top 100 In The Ring Quotes
#1. At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling out another major event would allow me to bring a ship full of supplies to hand out to those in need, I'd say that would be very significant.
Bill Goldberg
#2. I just think about the fight and what can happen. In the ring, It's my time to shine in front of everyone.
Miguel Cotto
#3. If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life ... I try to live my life the same way.
Eddie Alvarez
#4. They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really.
Michelle Rodriguez
#5. I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#6. I can categorically say I will not be putting my hat in the ring. It's not something I have ever coveted and it's not a position I am interested in taking up at this point in time. I am loyal to Newcastle and they have been fabulous to me. I feel that is where my responsibility lies.
Rob Andrew
#7. I have the basic skills already, my basic weapons if we put it that way. From there I can add more the necessary skills I need for a particular opponent. I have to study all the aspects of my opponent, so when I am in the ring, everything will be automatic.
Tomoki Kameda
#8. I had a job to do in the ring, and the businessmen around me had a job to do outside the ring, I did my job by beating up most of the guys they put in front of me and staying in shape, but the people I trusted didn't do their jobs.
Joe Frazier
#9. Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring.
Bob Backlund
#10. Are you not aware that my profession involves beating the living hell out of some poor-unfortunate wearing nothing more than a pair of green lycra knicks? I'm practically naked each time I step in the ring. But I tend to cover up my privates in public. No one likes ginger pubes.
Sheamus
#11. When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#12. There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.
Richard Wilbur
#13. There live a great man named Joe / who was belittled by a loudmouth foe / While his rival would taunt and tease / Joe silently bore the stings / And then fought like gladiator in the ring
Muhammad Ali
#14. Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life ... When you stop moving, you're done.
Georges St-Pierre
#15. What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.
Muhammad Ali
#16. To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
David M. Shoup
#17. I feel when I say I can do something and carry this opportunity to make movies, it's because I took the time to study it. A boxer can't just jump in the ring. You've got to practice and practice and practice.
RZA
#18. Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
Owen Hart
#19. I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.
Michael Irvin
#20. I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.
Rocky Marciano
#21. I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
Manny Pacquiao
#22. When you step in the ring, your arms are just too short to box with God
CM Punk
#23. I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.
Roberto Duran
#24. The greatness of Marciano in the ring was defined by the way he prepared for a fight, his ability to punch and take a punch.
Rocky Marciano
#25. It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.
Channing Tatum
#26. You get these moments in the ring that live forever. That's what Muhammad Ali accomplished, and I hope that I have, too.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#27. The G.O.P. is desperately seeking someone who can save the party from the fate of nominating Mitt Romney. But every time a non-Mitt throws his hat in the ring, the hat explodes.
Gail Collins
#28. A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His "becoming" happens during his daily routine.
Joe Louis
#29. Standing in the ring of fire, the eye of the storm, the vortex of pain and pressure is simultaneously the most vulnerable and most powerful place to be. Here we embody paradox. We stand our ground and surrender completely. Here we know the full power of the Feminine.
Lucy H. Pearce
#30. Dope don't have no sympathy, not for love or family, definitely not for fear. Put dope and the devil up against each other in the ring, and dope will win out. Every single time.
Lauren Beukes
#31. It takes pride and a tiger's drive to build up the confidence, the ego, the power to defeat an opponent in the ring. It
Muhammad Ali
#32. I systematically break guys down. I get in the ring and they say I don't have any power but then they feel me and feel my strength.
Timothy Bradley
#33. There is an old adage about gladiators, - that they plan their fight in the ring.
Seneca.
#34. The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.
Jack Johnson
#35. People want to see me back in the ring. I think it is more of a drag lying around on the beach.
Lennox Lewis
#36. When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.
Kuno Becker
#37. I don't see where Tyson Fury has boxed anybody of Wladimir's [ Klitschko] calibre to be able to get in the ring with Wladimir and do well.
Lennox Lewis
#38. It would be hard to throw a punch to someone who wasn't a boxer, who wasn't in the ring, and who didn't have on a pair of boxing gloves and who hadn't been training.
George Foreman
#39. I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults ... When you're fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry.
Curtis Jackson
#40. I had did so much to Larry [Holmes] in the ring that I made him respect me in the fight.
Michael Spinks
#41. I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.
Eddie Guerrero
#42. At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt.
Rob Gronkowski
#44. Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.
Jade Jones
#45. I'm so glad you brought that up Jay Lethal as a performer has grown into, I'll say this even though I'm wrestling him this Friday, he's one of my favorite wrestlers in the game right now. He's unreal. He's amazing in the ring. It doesn't matter who he's wresting. He's unreal on the microphone.
Adam Cole
#46. Contemplating from the confines of a desk the reality of death is worthwhile, but only moderately enriching. Too often do I resort to it; rarely do I get with death in the ring.
Richard Ronald Allan
#47. I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.
Mark McGrath
#48. When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem.
Sylvester Stallone
#49. This guy [Tyson Fury] really wants to prove himself in the ring and confirm what he keeps telling everyone, that he's the best in the world.
Wladimir Klitschko
#50. I'm out in the ring, Shawn Michaels turns to me and says, 'Hey, I got a couple of vertebrae out. Would you mind puttin 'em in with that chair?' He turns his back, I whack him and all of a sudden I'm a bad guy.
Kevin Nash
#51. I look forward to continuing to be a role model to women across the country and helping them have confidence in all they do in the ring, on the court or in the game of life!
Marlen Esparza
#52. It was always the same: in the ring you wanted to kill someone, but once you got out you were mates again.
Robert Muchamore
#53. There is no doubt that man is a competitive animal and there is no place where this fact is more obvious than in the ring. There is no second place. Either you win or you lose. When they call you a champion, it's because you don't lose. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body.
Rocky Marciano
#54. There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.
Muhammad Ali
#55. Sometimes there's more important things in life than being in the ring, like family, like us, & being in love.
Amy Dumas
#56. I was always scared in the amateurs, but the minute I got in the ring it was like another person took over. I become more vicious. In there I love to hurt people. Outside I can't hurt a bug.
Nonito Donaire
#57. Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.
Mike Tyson
#58. The one thing I can't get enough of is boxing. I love sparring in the ring or just doing the training, and it's easily one of the most effective ways of keeping off fat.
Matthew Hussey
#59. It was my tutor who dissuaded me from patronizing Green or Blue at the races, or Light or Heavy in the ring;
Marcus Aurelius
#60. In the ring I can stay until I'm old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away
Muhammad Ali
#61. Let me in the ring. I'll show you what that big word means.
Lorde
#62. I brought my daughters actually to Staples Center to watch me live in the ring - to watch their mother compete in the ring. It was a very proud moment for me.
Stephanie McMahon
#63. My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
Gene Tunney
#64. I was never, ever once angry in the ring.
Joe Frazier
#65. Mitt Romney has a fund-raiser. He's going to get in the ring and fight Evander Holyfield. This is the dumbest thing Republicans have done since they wrote that open letter to Iran.
David Letterman
#66. When you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing. But the fans don't know you screwed up unless you act like you just made a mistake.
Jake Roberts
#67. As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.
Saint Basil
#68. I could fight a dozen hounds from hell, I could bring down the son of Satan with a word, but put me in the ring with a psychotic chick, and I go down in the first.
Darynda Jones
#69. I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.
Garry Shandling
#70. The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months.
Dave Bautista
#71. I'm the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring.
Gracie Allen
#72. 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
#73. I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.
Muhammad Ali
#74. I would like to do more feature work. I intend to do that. To be really honest, it's an economic thing because when you make a film that doesn't make what it cost back, it's very difficult to get back in the ring.
Roman Coppola
#76. In the ring I can tell right away what his style is and I can adapt to it. I'm adjusting to life as a politician. It's different in training but I can stay focused on both.
Manny Pacquiao
#77. If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.
Stanley Crouch
#78. I like the debate, but I don't really like the fight. I don't like being in the ring. I'm not competitive.
Zoe Bell
#79. There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right.
Mike Tyson
#80. You want ME in the ring? Now I know you've been drinking
Kurt Angle
#81. When the fighters are in the ring, they want to dictate the pace. I want to dominate, so I want to impose to the other fighter my actions.
Tomoki Kameda
#82. That's how we all feel about our dogs, isn't it? They don't have to be champions in the ring to be champions in our hearts.
Ellen Miles
#85. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.
Muhammad Ali
#86. My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
Theodore Roosevelt
#87. If Chisora wants to kiss me, OK, if he likes me so much, but the best answer for him will be an answer with a fist in the ring.
Vitali Klitschko
#88. I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
Beanie Sigel
#89. 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
#90. Today, it's money. There's no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if you're good?
Dick Schaap
#91. Once Im in the ring, Im there to win no matter what it takes. Nobody and nothing can stop me, my will cannot be broken
Ruslan Provodnikov
#92. Welcome to the ring. Enter those who dare, and let them share the spoils. Only they have earned it. Will you win? The ring offers no promises. But one thing's for sure: unless you get in the ring today, you don't even stand a damn chance. Decide what really matters, and get in the ring for it - now.
Julien Smith
#93. 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
#94. I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.
Wladimir Klitschko
#95. You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.
Jake Roberts
#96. All fighters run. The constant motion prepares you for being in the ring. And running strengthens your legs. Punching power comes from your lower body.
Laila Ali
#97. There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a masked guy called The Grappler. He was one of my favorite guys to ever wrestle, and it was just a tremendous pleasure to step in the ring with him.
Jake Roberts
#98. I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too ... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ.
Curtis Jackson
#99. I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
Bob Hope
#100. Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.
Forrest Griffin
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