Boxing Quotes · Page 20

I train in Muay Thai, kickboxing, traditional boxing, wrestling, jiujitsu, and a little bit of judo.

— Urijah Faber

I'm a boxer. I'm a boxer. If you're interested, just watch my boxing, not my life.

— Gennady Golovkin

I think my greatest achievement in boxing is my following.

— Ricky Hatton

Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

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

— Josh Taylor

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

— Gennady Golovkin

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

— Thomas Hauser

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

— Morley Callaghan

The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

When I first started boxing, I said that I'd fight in The Olympics, become world champion, and retire undefeated.

— Demetrius Andrade

My grandfather and my uncle took me to the gym. I was kinda wild; they thought that boxing would teach me a…

— Paulie Malignaggi

It's a beautiful sport, boxing, when you're winning and everything is going well but when you hit the lows it really upsets…

— Kell Brook

I love boxing. I like to see the strategizing. Watching the warriors go to work. I like that struggle, going out there…

— Barry Larkin

We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships.

— Shawn Anthony Levy

Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I do believe he’s the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he’s…

— George Foreman

Over the years, I have used my podium to criticize judges who I felt were either incompetent or corrupt in rendering decisions…

— Teddy Atlas

The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her…

— Chrissie Hynde

I think it's so important to practice what you preach - whether you're into riding cows to work or eating a burger…

— Gigi Hadid

There's times when you're by yourself and you want your girl around or your kids around. You just need somebody around. And…

— Adrien Broner

Many people who have been around boxing all those years never had a champion, certainly a heavyweight champion…For that to happen in…

— Cus D'Amato

I learned very early on once I started boxing as a kid that if you go into the ring emotionally charged you…

— Chris Eubank Jr

For the first and only time, I was more worried about getting hurt by the crowd than by the guy I was…

— Jack Dempsey

Boxing wasn't taking me to the darkest places in my life. No. The fights were the easy part because it took my…

— Nigel Benn

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

— Jerry O'Connell

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

— Jake LaMotta

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Roy Jones Jr

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

You've got Roger, Floyd, and his uncle Jeff. The whole family, their boxing IQ is off the chart.

— Shane Mosley

I have to believe that when things are bad I can change them.

— James J. Braddock

I certainly will explore all avenues. K-1, boxing, all of them.

— Artem Lobov

Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?

— Larry Merchant

It was a sucker punch. But you know who gets hit by sucker punches? Suckers.

— Max Kellerman

I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!

— Muhammad Ali

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!

— Charlie Flynn

Politics is like boxing — you try to knock out your opponents.

— Idi Amin

Boxing is my calling and so I have no fear of getting hurt.

— Daniel Dubois

As much as I love to watch movies, nothing beats being ringside for a championship fight in boxing.

— Mauro Ranallo

To me, boxing is like ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

— Anonymous