Boxing Quotes

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.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

I always put my boxing first.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.

I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.

Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look weak and stupid in front of 17 million people. That's just not gonna happen.

I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.

I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.