Boxing Quotes

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

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.

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

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'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.

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.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

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.

Boxing is show-business with blood.

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

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

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.

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 has become America's tragic theater.

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