Boxing Quotes · Page 58

Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.

— Randall Cobb

The side's all right, but my bloody knees are killing me!

— Dai Dower

Amateur boxing is like a game but you have to be spiteful as a pro. I've got that spiteful streak. I've always…

— James DeGale

It's unbelievable when I think back to when I was a kid that one day I would have achieved so much through…

— Joe Calzaghe

I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?

— Mike Tyson

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

I think Roy Jones is a great fighter, a great puncher. But you know, he doesn't use the jab. But he's got…

— Larry Holmes

As everyone in boxing knows, styles makes fights.

— Miguel Cotto

It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great…

— Angelo Dundee

I try to show good technique - boxing technique, wrestling technique, jiu jitsu technique.

— Andrei Arlovski

Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.

— Joe Dunthorne

[Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he…

— Mike Tyson

Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.

— Deontay Wilder

If boxing was just about being tough, we could just get in the ring and take turns hitting each other with a…

— Steve Baccari

It's kind of hard for boxing, which is a violent sport, to get the respect that it deserves.

— Daniel Jacobs

I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young…

— Lana Parrilla

People ask for autographs, and I wonder why before realising, 'Oh, that's right, I'm doing well in boxing.'

— Joseph Parker

I feel I let everyone British sport, British boxing, my community, my home town of Manchester, my family my kids, I feel…

— Ricky Hatton

I've definitely changed as a person because of professional boxing.

— George Groves

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing gave me the discipline and took me away from the streets and away from the corners. It changed my life, you…

— Andy Ruiz Jr

The Glory is the issue to me. Money comes and goes, but a legacy stays forever. I hate to lose

— Shane Mosley

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

— Jake LaMotta

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

— Jack Dempsey

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

— Sylvester Stallone