Boxing Quotes

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

In boxing, everybody has their favorites.

I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.

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.

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

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.