Boxing Quotes · Page 33

I've loved boxing due to the history of boxing. It was one of the great American pastimes.

— Keith Thurman

I have a trainer. I love to do regular weight training, and I love to do boxing.

— La La Anthony

I was born with a flat nose, that's not because of boxing.

— Luke Campbell

Boxing's a very lonely sport. That ring is the loneliest place in the world.

— Joe Calzaghe

I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set - and they're both working.

— Willie Pep

I want to become a star in the United States because I want to show everyone quality boxing.

— Oleksandr Usyk

Boxing is one of the very few things left in life that you know who you are as soon as you step…

— Justin Lin

When you spar in boxing, the only thing that gets hurt is your brain. Everything else feels pretty good.

— Jonathan Gottschall

There are various psychological advantages you can take into boxing match. One is getting your opponent to fight with emotion and anger…

— George Groves

You going to call me arrogant for believing in myself? Come on! It's a competitive sport. Rappin' is the closest thing to…

— Astro

I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt…

— Andre Ward

He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health…

— Mike Tyson

My goal in boxing was to be Southern Area champion, might have a shot at the British, might own my own terraced…

— Nigel Benn

My mum hates the fact that I fight. My sisters hate it, too, but they understand that boxing gave me a way…

— Dillian Whyte

I see a fitness coach three times a week and I do a lot of boxing, a bit of running when my…

— Caroline Quentin

[Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he…

— Mike Tyson

It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

There came a time in my life where I just wanted to go out there and get myself a job somewhere. Boxing…

— Luke Campbell

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change…

— Jimmy Smits

Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners…

— Tahl Raz

“Once I saw a prizefighter boxing a yokel. The fighter was swift and amazingly scientific. His body was one violent flow of…

— Ralph Ellison

The only thing I'd like to see is to give fighters an option to wear a small headguard, a one-ounce headguard. Some…

— Larry Holmes

I was always interested in boxing, and I would go to boxing fight nights just locally on the Gold Coast where I'm…

— Megan Anderson

I pretty much know when people are talking rubbish and when they're serious. It's common in boxing, rubbish.

— Daniel Dubois

My only regret in boxing is that the best fighters won't fight each other.

— James Toney

“I’ve always liked boxing, there’s nothing like a punch in the face to remind you you don’t want to die.”

— Atticus Poetry

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

— Holt McCallany

I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing -…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

— Bob Hope

I'm not really a gambler, but I'll bet on the Super Bowl or some boxing. Something I feel comfortable with.

— Birdman

First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends

— Willie Pep

I always wanted to have an imprint on boxing and help up-and-coming fighters.

— Shane Mosley

When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.

— George Foreman

When I see wrestlers fight, they train a lot of boxing because they don't want to end up on bottom.

— Demian Maia

I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate…

— Dean Norris

The key to anything in boxing and life is sticking to it. Never give up.

— John Molina, Jr

Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.

— Don King

Boxing has been my life, and it is my life. I've enjoyed every moment of it.

— Roy Jones Jr

Boxing, jiu-jitsu, scaling the Matterhorn... I did cardio before cardio was cool.

— Theodore Roosevelt