Boxing Quotes

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

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

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

I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

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

But boxing was my profession. I had to go back the second time because I was broke and I couldn't just go and get a college degree and earn it. I had too many bills, too many families.

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

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

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

Boxing is what pays my bills.

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.

But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

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.

Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.

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

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.