Boxing Quotes · Page 27

God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

It's important to have good boxing skills going into the fight with Dan Henderson. It's a big part of his game.

— Mauricio Rua

Boxing is a poor man's sport. It is. There's no other way around it.

— Trent Williams

My parents taught me good standards, and I feel like I'm taking it to the boxing realm.

— Joseph Parker

I personally hate to fight, but I love the science of boxing.

— Aleks Paunovic

In football what counts is team spirit. It isn't an individual sport like boxing or tennis.

— Alfredo Di Stefano

Boxing is full of chances and it's easy throwing a shot, it's about landing it at the precise time.

— Daniel Dubois

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

— Sylvester Stallone

For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.

— Jennifer Beals

You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?

— Don King

I want to produce. I want to direct. I want to be my own camera man. I want my own boxing club.…

— Barry Keoghan

I like my boxing and jiu jitsu and that kind of stuff and one thing I always enjoyed from an early age…

— James Haskell

Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in…

— Nicola Adams

There is so much to learn from boxing, you can never have learnt everything; anybody who says they know it all is…

— Nicola Adams

Boxing is not brutal, it's an art - God has gifted me with incredible handspeed as a tool to be used -…

— Roy Jones Jr

Boxing gave me self-confidence that I didn't have growing up. When I was young, I was super quiet and I didn't trust…

— Claressa Shields

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting…

— Frank Bruno

When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me,…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live…

— Muhammad Ali

I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting…

— Wladimir Klitschko

I'm a self motivated person, that's what got me to the point I'm at today. I don't take anybody lightly because this…

— Danny Garcia

Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan culture that flourished on Crete until 1100 B.C. The…

— Katherine Dunn

On my twelfth birthday, I got a new bicycle as a present from my folks, and I rode it to a fair…

— Muhammad Ali

I didn't come from wrestling. I didn't come from boxing or kickboxing.

— Travis Browne

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

— Sonny Liston

Boxing is kind of like football in that you test each other's desire to be there.

— Myles Garrett

Football is like boxing because you have to know when it is time to attack.

— Diego Simeone

I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost

— Frank Bruno

Boxing is Rampage's best weapon. He has a great boxing, with good uppercuts and hooks.

— Mauricio Rua

Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.

— Taylor Lautner

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

Everybody knows that rebounding is my strong point, so they're boxing me out. I've just got work harder.

— Lorenzen Wright

I love to train boxing, and I think I have enough skills in boxing.

— Junior dos Santos

I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad

— Mike Tyson

Dementia pugilistica was discovered in 1928... And we still have boxing. Football will continue.

— Chris Borland

The first thing you learn in boxing is that there are NO guarantees.

— Tommy Morrison

Eubank is tough, he's game, he's strong. He's just like his dad. But he struggles with the boxing bit.

— James DeGale

Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.

— Jack Johnson

I left school at 16, with GCSEs, and went boxing full-time.

— Luke Campbell