Boxing Quotes

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

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

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

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.

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

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.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.

I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.

Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!

I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.

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.

Sure, there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

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.

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

Boxing is show-business with blood.

I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.