I like music, I like boxing, I like watching football.

Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

People who like boxing like my style.

— Gennady Golovkin

I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Battle rap is a culture. That's boxing, it's like boxing.

— Ab-Soul

“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

Our boxing is not like the men's. It's more thoughtful, more technical. It's not just, 'Get in there and hurt someone.'

— Nicola Adams

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

— Mickey Rourke

This is boxing. It's not like a baseball game. The fighters say, 'I need a lot of money or I don't fight, because it's…

— Gennady Golovkin

For me, boxing's like checkers, and MMA's like chess - there are so many ways to win the match. It's not barbaric; it's boxing,…

— Tito Ortiz

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you…

— Twyla Tharp

The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for…

— Hilary Swank

It was like boxing found me.

— Shannon Briggs

Life is like a boxing match, defeat does not come when you fall. But when you fail to get back up again.

— Anonymous

I try to find out what the guy's strengths and weaknesses are. Like in boxing, I'd be a counter-puncher. Whatever he does well, I…

— Antonio Gates

I actually like boxing away from home. It takes the pressure off you a little bit.

— James DeGale