Title Fight Quotes

#1. If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.

Alexis Arguello

#2. When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

Michael Bolton

#3. Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Billy Joel

#4. I'm working hard and I think I'm where I should be at by now but I'm in no hurry at all, I'm taking one fight at a time, I want to win my fights. With the title shot I don't know yet but if I get the chance someday, I will be more than ready.

Alexander Gustafsson

#5. A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.

J. Michael Straczynski

#6. How do you know whether you're serious about your values? You fight for them when they're violated even if it costs you title, favor, friendship, and profit.

Assegid Habtewold

#7. It might be a shock to see me, but that's no reason for people to act crazy, and it doesn't give them license to chase me down the street.

Prince

#8. The Boston Red Sox were obsessed with outcomes; he with process. That's what kept him sane.

Michael Lewis

#9. 250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.

Barry McGuigan

#10. The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.

Baruch Spinoza

#11. They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight. Heavyweight title fights should be huge events, not an afterthought in a country most famous for producing chocolate.

David Haye

#12. On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined.

Edward Witten

#13. I don't care that no one has successfully defended the (light heavyweight) title. I care about preparation, training and getting inside the cage to fight.

Rafael Cavalcante

#14. The situation right after the fight wasn't too good; I believe I'm still the only champion in the world who never received the belt inside the ring once you've won the title. I held that against the English fans for a long time but I felt that also motivated me.

Marvin Hagler

#15. My next fight is always the most important fight, so regardless if I'm fighting for the title or not, I always have to go in there and give everything that I've got.

Jose Aldo

#16. That pretender is living on the future queen's coin. She is saying she will do for me what she would not do for herself. She will use Faerie gold to finance my needs.

Hailey Edwards

#17. Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

Laozi

#18. You've got to have a focus. You just fight for money, you get hurt. You focus on the title, you'll just naturally make money doing it.

George Foreman

#19. After I knock out Randy Couture, I'll fight for the heavyweight title, the real heavyweight boxing title in October or November, come back and fight in the UFC in January or February. It doesn't matter, I'm a two sport athlete. The oldest man to ever do that.

James Toney

#20. I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a poke at me, I'll snap the finger clean off that does the poking.

Patrick Rothfuss

#21. It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Robert H. Schuller

#22. I respect the IBF obligation to fight Povetkin, but I would like the exception to fight David Haye. That is the only title the Klitschkos don't have. We have them all except the WBA, which is why Haye is such an interesting cookie for me to eat.

Wladimir Klitschko

#23. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, We will fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea. First to fight for right and freedom, and to keep our honor clean, We are proud to claim the title of United States Marines. - Marine Corps Hymn

Tom Clancy

#24. What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in serious music.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#25. I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

Barry McGuigan