Boxing Quotes · Page 2

What would I do without boxing? That's the question, isn't it?

— Riddick Bowe

I tried a bunch of things, like Jiu Jitsu boxing classes. I don't know why, but I did.

— Jimmy O. Yang

He's a very, very clever fighter, Manny, but you'd have to say the cleverest fighter in boxing is Mayweather. He adapts his…

— Ricky Hatton

I have two friends, who have died from this boxing game, and it scares me, but I feel I was made for…

— Andy Ruiz Jr

I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.

— Nonito Donaire

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my…

— Larry Holmes

I tried to go to college; I just picked a trade, did a plumbing test - and failed. And then I thought,…

— Luke Campbell

I won my very first fight by knockout in the first round. The trainer at the time was in love with me…

— Marcos Maidana

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

— Jake LaMotta

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to…

— Muhammad Ali

A good wrestler, with good jiu jitsu and great boxing, can beat Fedor.

— Roy Nelson

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

— Lennox Lewis

I love to hit people. I love to.

— Mike Tyson

Sometimes big boxing matches should take place on the cobbles. That's really where Mikkel Kessler and me ought to have sorted it…

— Carl Froch

I am a fight fan. I think boxing had its problems and kind of fell away for a while, but it's coming…

— Gerry Cooney

A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another.

— Katherine Dunn

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

— Thomas Hauser

If you're dedicated to something and you put the time in, why should anyone have an opinion on it? Halif of the…

— Claressa Shields

When I had a boxing match, all I wanted to do was put the guy on his back. That's why I chose…

— Jake Hecht

I hate being around boxing people. I'd rather be back in the gym.

— Tommy Morrison

I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

— Muhammad Ali

I don't know jack-diddly-squat about jiu-jitsu. And I know enough to say that a guillotine doesn't look too comfortable. But I also…

— Teddy Atlas

I love to box, because I think boxing is an art.

— Ryan Garcia

No doubt boxing's brutal beauty lies in the eye of the rooting beholder.

— Skip Bayless

I'm really into boxing - I have a personal boxing trainer in New York.

— Nina Agdal