Boxing Quotes · Page 37

I think we're surpassing boxing with the excitement and the fights that we give.

— Jeremy Stephens

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing is the gift I have been given for whatever reason and I'd love to honour God in everything I do.

— Katie Taylor

Nothing in boxing means much when one of your kids is in trouble and needs your help.

— Luis Ortiz

Boxing is a business and if it makes sense, other than my brother (Anthony), damn right I'll fight him.

— Lamont Peterson

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

— Muhammad Ali

Shit happens in the sport of boxing. You wanted to see a KO, that's what I gave you.

— Floyd Mayweather

I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.

— Chris Eubank Jr

I want the fans to know that since I was a child boxing is my life. I want the fans to know…

— Dmitry Bivol

I'm just trying to get those marquee victories and continue to get those accomplishments so when the time comes and the vote…

— Andre Ward

We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so…

— Larry Holmes

I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the…

— George Foreman

In boxing we're allowed to come togethwe. Protestants and Catholics, the north and south, everyone. I'm in an Irish vest, even on…

— Carl Frampton

Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with…

— Russell Peters

I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults...…

— Curtis Jackson

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline.…

— Dick Schaap

“He can hit a man in the liver so the blood flow stops. It takes a full second before the pain registers…

— Adam Berlin

If you go to any fight, whether MMA or boxing, there's a whole musical soundscape to these events. There's pre-event pump up/psych-up…

— Shawn Anthony Levy

On my twelfth birthday, I got a new bicycle as a present from my folks, and I rode it to a fair…

— Muhammad Ali

Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan culture that flourished on Crete until 1100 B.C. The…

— Katherine Dunn

I'm a self motivated person, that's what got me to the point I'm at today. I don't take anybody lightly because this…

— Danny Garcia

The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting…

— Wladimir Klitschko

Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not…

— Henry David Thoreau

Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at…

— David Lyons

It would clearly revolutionise boxing if we could have a tournament in every division.

— Callum Smith

I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.

— Gene Tunney

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.

— Muhammad Ali

In baseball, if you have a good farm system, you'll have a good major league club. Same thing in boxing.

— Teddy Atlas

I don't live for all the pats on the back and the adulation. I let my boxing do the talking.

— Josh Taylor

Well, that's cricket Harry. These things happen in boxing

— Frank Bruno

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

— Rod Taylor

My first boxing memory is watching Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard on television.

— Joe Calzaghe

It makes me bounce out of boxing, I put all my spare time into being a dad.

— Rocky Fielding

His mouth made him felt like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

— Joe Frazier

Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

— Djimon Hounsou

When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.

— Mike Tyson

Boxing is a hard sport, I've been doing it for a long time since the age of 10.

— James DeGale

How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

— Mike Tyson

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

— Nonito Donaire