Boxing Quotes · Page 36

After 99 fights, I don't fight for the passion of boxing.

— Julio Cesar Chavez Sr

Boxing's a business, and I've got a great team around me who have been looking after me in that sense.

— Amir Khan

I'd love to be the Ali of women's boxing, to retire as the greatest.

— Nicola Adams

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

— Lennox Lewis

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

— Mark Kaylor

My computer just beat me at chess...but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

— Author Name

I still respect Anthony Joshua and I'm a big fan of what he did in boxing.

— Andy Ruiz Jr

Boxing has been good to me and I believe I have been good for boxing.

— George Groves

Michael seems to have lost his values temporarily. He just has to be worked with, disciplined and talked to and given some…

— Don King

People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never…

— Muhammad Ali

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after…

— Alice Dreger

Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was…

— Muhammad Ali

I've been on the opposite side of decisions before when the crowd would be booing and saying that I lost. I've lived…

— George Foreman

Boxing's in my blood, so I'll always stay involved in that, and I'll probably do a bit of TV work as well,…

— Joe Calzaghe

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan, would sit through the night watching boxing matches and would hit the bag at every…

— Robbie Lawler

I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.

— Rashad Evans

I got the script for 'Real Steel.' I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing, and I was immediately…

— Evangeline Lilly

I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of…

— Lionel Rose

there's a lot of dangerous sports. You know, my opinion, football is the most dangerous sport there is. After that I'll give…

— Jon Jones

The style I have in judo is very unique... One big advantage a judo player has is they have very good posture…

— Ronda Rousey

I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the…

— Evander Holyfield

One thing I took - you know, especially from boxing at a young age - from my coach was, if you're a…

— Brian Ortega

I know he's not an MMA fighter, but can we just talk about how great Deontay Wilder is? He's must-see TV. Not…

— Ariel Helwani

Recently I donated money to the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Foundation in Louisville. I regard that as a kind of payback.…

— Lennox Lewis

Of course, we all try to get better. I always try to get better - boxing, kickboxing and wrestling.

— Merab Dvalishvili

I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!

— Muhammad Ali

I've been boxing since I was eight, and that's a long time to take punches day after day.

— Amir Khan

Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam!

— Don King

Boxing is a lonely sport and when you lose it's hard to take and it's hard to get over.

— Carl Frampton

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

— Mike Tyson

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes

— Jake LaMotta

I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.

— Muhammad Ali

No sport - maybe no business - is more entrepreneurial than boxing.

— Tahl Raz

I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.

— Zach Braff

I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.

— Chuck Wepner

The only difference between street fighting and boxing is there a ref there from stopping me from killing you

— Marvin Hagler

Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.

— Nonito Donaire

I suppose the appeal of boxing for me is seeing people do well when they have worked really hard.

— Karren Brady

It's only boxing, don't worry about it. Let's get it on!

— Carl Froch