Boxing Quotes

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.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

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

I always put my boxing first.

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 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.

Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

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

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

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.

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.

I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups.

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 lost my edge for boxing, I didn't put as much into it as I did before. I didn't run as far. I didn't train as hard. I didn't eat correctly. I started drinking a little bit every now and then.