Boxing Quotes

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

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because I look a certain way doesn't mean I'm weak.

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.

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

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.

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.