Boxing Quotes · Page 5

Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game…

— Jay-Z

I'm like a bottle of milk with gloves.

— Jim Watt

I had dreams in 2000 of being an Olympian for boxing. I never talk about it.

— Chael Sonnen

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

If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely…

— Don King

Boxing is a metaphor for hitting back and showing you can win in life.

— Takashi Miike

I love yoga, pilates, boxing, spinning, and weight lifting and tend to do a mix of them all.

— Ella Woodward

This is the lying thieving mother who cut me $500,000.

— Larry Holmes

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

A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with…

— Evander Holyfield

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never…

— George Foreman

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level.

— Bob Hope

I do a bit of boxing in the off-season to stay fit - it's a different kind of fitness.

— Nikita Parris

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it

— Sugar Ray Leonard

Once I walk into the gym I'm all about boxing, but when I'm home, it's about being a dad.

— Rocky Fielding

No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can…

— Norman Mailer

I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There are very few new things in this world, very few. That's why people that are young, if they're smart, try to…

— Cus D'Amato

I want to bring something new to boxing.

— Vasyl Lomachenko

King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he…

— Mike Tyson

I'm not going to get tired in a 12 round boxing event, especially if I have time to prepare for it.

— Jorge Masvidal

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

— Anonymous

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

— Muhammad Ali

I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer…

— Don King

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and…

— Joyce Carol Oates