Top 81 Quotes About Boxing Fighting
#1. 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
#2. The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.
Manny Pacquiao
#3. When I came into boxing, when it was more out of control, no fighters got an opportunity to fight. I came in: everybody got an opportunity to make a living in America.
Don King
#4. People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.
Mike Tyson
#5. Will be a divine fight, a holy war ... Armageddon on a miniature scale.
Muhammad Ali
#6. I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.
Nonito Donaire
#7. 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
#8. The part that sickens me about boxing is guys fight their whole careers and they have nothing to show for it. That's not going to be my testimony. When it's time to get out of the game, I want to be able to walk away. I'm not going to jeopardize my health. I will have no problems walking away.
Andre Ward
#9. There is boxing and then there is me. The rest are just falling in line behind me or are trying to get in line to fight me. And that includes Manny Pacquiao too.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#10. I did a lot of smoker fights and fought pretty much every week since Pat wouldn't let me fight until he was sure I was ready. I was also boxing and so I had 30 unofficial fights or more of those.
Robbie Lawler
#11. I also watched boxing all the time and Tuesday Night Fights on USA and just kept hitting my heavy back in the garage.
Robbie Lawler
#12. When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.
Muhammad Ali
#13. Boxing is not brutal, it's an art - God has gifted me with incredible handspeed as a tool to be used - what else am I supposed to do but fight? There ain't no hand-racing competitions.
Roy Jones Jr.
#14. Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess.
Wladimir Klitschko
#15. Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#16. The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
Bernard Hopkins
#17. His system is a combination of ferocious blows, holds and throws, adapted from Japanese bayonet tactics, ju-jitsu, Chinese boxing, Sikh wrestling, French wrestling and Cornish collar-and-elbow wrestling, plus expert knowledge of hip-shooting, knife fighting and use of the Tommy gun and hand grenade.
Giles Milton
#18. I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight.
Mark Kaylor
#21. They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight.
Ferdie Pacheco
#22. Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.
David Lyons
#23. I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.
Wilbur Smith
#24. I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.
Mike Tyson
#25. Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#26. This fight is more about what Roy Jones lost than what I took
Antonio Tarver
#27. I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again
Muhammad Ali
#28. I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#29. I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.
Gene Tunney
#30. I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required.
Maxim Kuznetsov
#31. If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse
Bob Arum
#32. Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight.
Muhammad Ali
#33. I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.
Muhammad Ali
#34. Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.
Muhammad Ali
#35. That may not be a simple conversation. But when you are dealing with root causes, at least you know you are fighting the real problem and not just boxing with shadows.
Steven D. Levitt
#36. Las Vegas is the boxing capital. During a Floyd Mayweather fight weekend, you can shop, party, stay out late and do anything you want. The city of Las Vegas has everything.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#37. Talk of fighting Tyson is a little premature. I'm an addict and an alcoholic
Michael Dokes
#38. Be it in the rough-and-tumble world of inner-city politics or the bare-knuckle boxing ring, the Irish rightly earned their fightin' moniker.
Rashers Tierney
#40. If you go to any fight, whether MMA or boxing, there's a whole musical soundscape to these events. There's pre-event pump up/psych-up music, there's fighter introductions, there's between rounds, so my musical needs are really diverse.
Shawn Anthony Levy
#41. I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.
Zach Braff
#42. I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.
Marlon Starling
#43. There's always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
Bernard Hopkins
#44. 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
#45. Against my mouth she groaned. "I hate being quiet."
A breathless chuckled escaped me.
"Me too. Once we're home ... "
"Lots of noise.
Lisa Kessler
#46. Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.
George Foreman
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#51. It's hard to know what's gay in life. Boxing. That's two men fighting over a belt.
Demetri Martin
#52. The band broke into a cover of "Hungry Like the Wolf." I smiled up at mine. He was sexy even in soaking wet blue jeans. "Dance with me.
Lisa Kessler
#53. I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.
Mike Tyson
#54. 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
#55. Mitt Romney announced he will fight former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in a charity boxing match. You can tell that Romney is serious about it. Today, his butler gave him a piggyback ride up the steps of the Philadelphia art museum.
Jimmy Fallon
#56. My fighting style, if you will, is a combination of mimicking, cowboy films and boxing that I have done throughout my life.
Dominic Purcell
#57. I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end
Mike Tyson
#58. I personally hate to fight, but I love the science of boxing.
Aleks Paunovic
#59. 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.
Larry Holmes
#60. 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
#61. Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.
Joe Frazier
#62. This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.
Bernard Hopkins
#63. When Don King's fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses.
Larry Holmes
#64. I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.
David Bailey
#65. I love boxing. I like to see the strategizing. Watching the warriors go to work. I like that struggle, going out there and fighting.
Barry Larkin
#66. For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.
Mike Tyson
#67. All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.
Gerry Cooney
#68. Once again, the show became life imitating art, imitating life, because we went in with this whole boxing thing - you're down but not out, and no matter what's happening in your life, you keep fighting.
Jennifer Lopez
#69. He rested his head on top of mine and whispered, "I'm warning you now. I'm a horrible patient."
I smiled in spite of myself and pulled back. "Of course you are. That's why you're a doctor.
Lisa Kessler
#70. If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.
Paul Haggis
#71. They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.
George Foreman
#72. I was a sportsman for years. I've always had a physical background. I've always had an interest in boxing and fighting. To get physical in films is a dream. I love it.
Jason Statham
#73. I will fight for America till the day I drop.
Don King
#74. During a charity boxing match on Friday, Mitt Romney lasted two rounds against Evander Holyfield and raised a million dollars. It was just like Holyfield's fight with Mike Tyson, except Romney chewed off his other ear talking about his 18 grandchildren.
Jimmy Fallon
#75. A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em
Muhammad Ali
#76. If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.
Muhammad Ali
#77. I want fifteen referees at this fight ... because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me
Muhammad Ali
#78. I've been boxing for 25 years and I need exciting fights.
Joe Calzaghe
#79. Love is the only thing that keeps me sane ...
Sue Townsend
#80. The only difference between street fighting and boxing is there a ref there from stopping me from killing you
Marvin Hagler
#81. 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
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