Boxing Quotes · Page 28

I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong. They never called me n*gger.

— Muhammad Ali

Boxing gives you discipline, it helps you physically and mentally.

— Anthony Yarde

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

— Billie Jean King

I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.'

— George Foreman

Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.

— Angelo Dundee

“We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.”

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Auditioning is like boxing: It keeps me hungry and intense, whether I get the part or not.

— Mia Goth

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

— Oscar De La Hoya

Boxing is really an art form. It might just look like two people beating each other up, but when you look closer,…

— Seth Numrich

Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning…

— Edgar Ramirez

No sport is more geared to the warrior's code of honour, pride and respect. That's why I love boxing. It's mano a…

— Carl Froch

If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of…

— Muhammad Ali

I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me…

— Joe Louis

My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing.…

— Frank Bruno

Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's…

— Mike Tyson

Boxing has been around for a while and there's a lot of great examples of what to do and what not to…

— Caleb Plant

If you go to any fight, whether MMA or boxing, there's a whole musical soundscape to these events. There's pre-event pump up/psych-up…

— Shawn Anthony Levy

“He can hit a man in the liver so the blood flow stops. It takes a full second before the pain registers…

— Adam Berlin

Recently I donated money to the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Foundation in Louisville. I regard that as a kind of payback.…

— Lennox Lewis

Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at…

— David Lyons

Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not…

— Henry David Thoreau

For the first and only time, I was more worried about getting hurt by the crowd than by the guy I was…

— Jack Dempsey

I learned very early on once I started boxing as a kid that if you go into the ring emotionally charged you…

— Chris Eubank Jr

Many people who have been around boxing all those years never had a champion, certainly a heavyweight champion…For that to happen in…

— Cus D'Amato

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

— George Elliott Clarke

I started boxing late but I've always been a fighter all my life.

— George Tahdooahnippah

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

— Muhammad Ali

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

— George Foreman

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

— Roger Kahn

Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.

— Nicole Kidman

Boxing is not a bodybuilding sport, plain and simple. Your body isn't going to win a fight.

— Chris Arreola

Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

— Bryce Courtenay

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

— Muhammad Ali

I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.

— Adrien Broner

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

— Mickey Rourke

I saw a chance to make the 1988 Olympic boxing team and forgot all about football.

— Tommy Morrison

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

— Warren Farrell

I have to know jiu-jitsu and wrestling, but I'm a boxing guy.

— Junior dos Santos

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

— Mike Tyson

Boxing, for me, is all about drama and victory, and there is plenty more to come.

— Oleksandr Usyk