Boxing Quotes · Page 29

Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

— Barry McGuigan

Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves.

— Jarod Kintz

I love boxing! Working out is calming and helps clear my mind.

— Adriana Lima

Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.

— Jack Dempsey

Mayweather and Pacquiao fight ticket as high as $18.82M. Even David and Goliath was free to watch .

— Efiosiugbore Adebayo

How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work

— Tyrell Biggs

If they let people go fight jiu-jitsu tournaments, they can't stop me going to fight a boxing fight.

— Conor McGregor

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

— Muhammad Ali

... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear…

— Brenda Ueland

I remember I did a boxing class. I remember sparring one time, and the guy smacked me right in the nose, and…

— Becky Lynch

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

The training on Christmas Day, the games on Boxing Day and the 28th - that's what footballers love. They love to play…

— Scott McTominay

People who don't understand fighting think you need to hate somebody to beat them. But I keep hate and anger out of…

— Chris Eubank Jr

“Now, whoever has courage and a strong and collected spirit in his breast, let him come forward, lace on the gloves and…

— Virgil

One name that did come to mind that I did mention before I fought Alvarez was Anthony Pettis. I think that's an…

— Mike Perry

Boxing's one of the most difficult jobs in the world, so nothing but respect for these guys who literally put their lives…

— Bugzy Malone

There's times when you're by yourself and you want your girl around or your kids around. You just need somebody around. And…

— Adrien Broner

I think it's so important to practice what you preach - whether you're into riding cows to work or eating a burger…

— Gigi Hadid

The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her…

— Chrissie Hynde

Over the years, I have used my podium to criticize judges who I felt were either incompetent or corrupt in rendering decisions…

— Teddy Atlas

Boxing makes you kind of tight, so it's really good to mix that with barre, Pilates, or something that'll stretch you out…

— Elsa Hosk

Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had…

— Mike Tyson

'Rocky' is a movie that just happens to be about boxing. It's really about characters and story lines and relationships and all…

— Triple H

I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear…

— George Foreman

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

— Angelo Dundee

I don't know how my mother did it, but I had boxing gloves on my hands when I was born!

— Fabio Gatti

For me, growing up, I'd always been a part of team sports, except for when I was boxing.

— Baron Corbin

I want to be remembered as a guy who transcended boxing.

— Naseem Hamed

Amin was the heavyweight boxing champion of Uganda and could be a tough opponent.

— Antonio Inoki

Boxing is all hard work. I don't care what level you're on.

— Adrien Broner

People tell me it was a great left hook, but I wouldn't know. I never saw it

— Gene Fullmer

In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there.

— Lennox Lewis

I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.

— Muhammad Ali

Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career.

— Chris Penn

[David Haye] is the biggest diva that boxing has ever seen, I could not believe the demands.

— Tony Bellew

I'm always having fun in training and in boxing. I think it's because boxing is my passion.

— Manny Pacquiao

I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages

— Muhammad Ali

“In boxing, you don’t lose if you fall. You only lose if you fail to get up.” Vikram”

— Sunanda J. Chatterjee

Hit and move, that's amateur boxing and that's what I'm good at.

— James DeGale

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

— Muhammad Ali