Boxing Quotes · Page 35

I think I have a high boxing IQ and I do this at a really high level.

— Caleb Plant

What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

— Catherynne M. Valente

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

— George Foreman

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

— Dan Duva

Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed…

— Angelo Dundee

Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.

— Bob Verdi

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

— George Foreman

If I could ban boxing, I probably would, but I'll tell you in the same breath, I loved it growing up.

— Jonathan Banks

The integration of a headgear in professional boxing would do so much to make it safer for young men. They could go…

— George Foreman

“Boxing is the image of the Vietnam war with none of its guilt and only 25 percent of its dangers. It is…

— Irish" Wayne Kelly

Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my…

— Eddie Alvarez

This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. He butted me. Look at me. My kids will…

— Mike Tyson

I was just like a loose cannon. I was just wild, man. I was really just a wild, wild, strong wrestler with…

— Al Iaquinta

I think there's a lack of respect for me out there, from the promoters, boxing people. It's something I've faced ever since…

— Danny Garcia

Some were scattered about the ring, one or two went in the sawdust tub, one I spat out as I fell, and…

— Johnny Basham

The beauty about boxing fights is that they offer lots of opportunity to really learn something about yourself and your opponent.

— Jean Pascal

I was nobody; I showed up to sparring in a white wife beater and Hawaiian shorts. I had plimsolls; I didn't have…

— Dillian Whyte

Boxing can be so important to young people, it keeps you off the street and you can channel your energy and aggression…

— Nigel Benn

I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to…

— Derrick Rose

Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take…

— Jake LaMotta

I've been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career I want to be true to myself.…

— Orlando Cruz

I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding…Basketball comes close, but it's a team…

— David Foster Wallace

There are very few new things in this world, very few. That's why people that are young, if they're smart, try to…

— Cus D'Amato

I have great skills. I can fight anybody, anywhere, anytime. I have done it in the past. I am on a different…

— James Toney

I don't back up with boxing gloves on. I take a couple shots, but I'll come at you.

— Uriah Hall

This fight is more about what Roy Jones lost than what I took

— Antonio Tarver

“Boxers, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.”

— Irish" Wayne Kelly

To me, boxing isn't about the other person. It's about me. My inner struggles. It works for me.

— Aleks Paunovic

Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?

— Henry Cooper

I do actually use a boxing trainer when I train for stand-up.

— Louis C. K

I want people to know my style of boxing and my skills can be the best in any weight division.

— Shane Mosley

This is boxing - you can't really say what is going to happen because anything can happen in that square ring.

— Daniel Jacobs

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

— Joe Louis

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

— Mark McGrath

“[W]hat is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?”

— Catherynne M. Valente

When it comes to damage, boxing will cause more damage than MMA ever will.

— Chuck Liddell

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.

— Barbara Johnson

I didn't make the most of school, but boxing has given me discipline.

— Anthony Joshua

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

— John Cusack

Some pay to see me win, some pay to see me lose, but they all pay.

— Anonymous