Boxing Quotes · Page 39

That's the only way I know how to do it. I do it big in boxing, I do it big in MMA.

— James Toney

I think I might've turned 39, look like I turned 29, feel like I turned about 19.

— Roy Jones Jr

Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

— Muhammad Ali

I'm the Godfather of Boxing. Everything is out in the open with me. What you see is what you get.

— Jake LaMotta

With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!

— Jerry O'Connell

I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.

— Morley Callaghan

Unlike most sports playing fields, a boxing ring is a temporary structure.

— Thomas Hauser

I understand this business. Sometimes there's a lot of corruption. It's boxing.

— Gennady Golovkin

I could have ended up in a gang or in prison because Harlesden is real rough and I was always a naughty…

— James DeGale

“I'd become an uncertain creature in her mind, and I found I liked it; she couldn't fathom what else I might be…

— Anna Freeman

I think it's a true blessing and great opportunity for me to represent, not only New York boxing, but coming from Brownsville…

— Daniel Jacobs

David Price is a big guy but he has not used his advantages, I have known him since the amateurs in the…

— Dereck Chisora

My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see…

— Wladimir Klitschko

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it…

— Joseph Barbera

From the beginning, when my brother Vadim first took me to the boxing gym at 10, I was able to punch hard,…

— Gennady Golovkin

It's not a natural thing for a father to be a trainer of a kid in boxing because it involves sending a…

— Teddy Atlas

Canelo is not only the face of boxing, but he is probably pound-for-pound one of the best in the sport. He's one…

— Daniel Jacobs

In boxing, Mike Tyson fascinates me. The attitude and confidence that he could not be beaten when he was heavyweight champion of…

— Andrew Flintoff

If you go to Madison Square Garden, you better have your A game ready, because here goes the thing, they love boxing.…

— Roy Jones Jr

I played a little football but it was nothing like boxing. One on one. Me vs. you. You win, you win. I…

— Demetrius Andrade

I have been blowing past the majority of my opponents, so people get the impression of me as an attacking, body punching,…

— Ricky Hatton

It's not just a trainer - as a man, my dad was unbelievable. Even outside boxing, he was my friend as well.…

— Joe Calzaghe

Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now…

— Alexis Arguello

A boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone,…

— Evander Holyfield

I have massive respect for Ricky Burns. He has put Scottish boxing back on the map.

— Josh Taylor

I got the who's who in the boxing world; I've been training with the Lomachenkos, the Terrence Crawfords.

— T.J. Dillashaw

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

— Billy Joe Saunders

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

— Mike Tyson

Boxing isn't a career. Acting is it for me. But they're both very therapeutic.

— Barry Keoghan

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing…

— Dolph Lundgren

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

— Gene Tunney

One of the reasons boxing is one of the greatest things to happen to my life is because it made me human…

— Logan Paul

I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.

— Oscar De La Hoya

Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

— Larry Holmes

Come December 8th his ass gone be hurt. He aint fought 43 Floyd Mayweathers.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.

— Tommy Farr

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”

— Muhammad Ali

MMA keeps growing and now I think it's more popular than professional boxing.

— Andrei Arlovski

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.

— Mike Tyson

What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?

— Teofilo Stevenson