Boxing Quotes · Page 20

Boxing's a very lonely sport. That ring is the loneliest place in the world.

— Joe Calzaghe

I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set - and they're both working.

— Willie Pep

I pretty much know when people are talking rubbish and when they're serious. It's common in boxing, rubbish.

— Daniel Dubois

My only regret in boxing is that the best fighters won't fight each other.

— James Toney

I want to become a star in the United States because I want to show everyone quality boxing.

— Oleksandr Usyk

Boxing is one of the very few things left in life that you know who you are as soon as you step…

— Justin Lin

When you spar in boxing, the only thing that gets hurt is your brain. Everything else feels pretty good.

— Jonathan Gottschall

I want people to know my style of boxing and my skills can be the best in any weight division.

— Shane Mosley

“I got several slaps on my bare ass from the strangers who had just watched me take a beating. I decided boxing…

— Nick Pageant

“The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief time out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your…

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

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

Our boxing is not like the men's. It's more thoughtful, more technical. It's not just, 'Get in there and hurt someone.'

— Nicola Adams

Boxing’s an art, it’s a science, and you don’t go out to knock people out. If they happen to get knocked out,…

— Roy Jones Jr

This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. Evander Holyfield butted me. Look at me. My kids…

— Mike Tyson

Conor knows how to fight and he knows how to box. He has been boxing professional boxers for his whole life, he…

— Artem Lobov

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a…

— Hugh Jackman

Boxing kept me out of the streets, by giving me something to do. And it gave me a father figure in the…

— Martin Lawrence

I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy…

— Mike Tyson

In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali,…

— George Foreman

Every fighter that ever lived had fear. A boy comes to me and tells me that he's not afraid, if I believed…

— Cus D'Amato

Fear is like fire. You can make it work for you: it can warm you in the winter, cook your food when…

— Cus D'Amato

When I was up in college, I had a friend, and he was the only guy who knew I wasn't going to…

— Deontay Wilder

Boxing has always been work to me, a job. If I could say anything to a youngster taking up boxing it would…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

I do actually use a boxing trainer when I train for stand-up.

— Louis C. K

This is boxing - you can't really say what is going to happen because anything can happen in that square ring.

— Daniel Jacobs

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

— Mark McGrath

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

— Joe Louis

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

— George Foreman

Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.

— Bob Verdi

I don't back up with boxing gloves on. I take a couple shots, but I'll come at you.

— Uriah Hall

If I could ban boxing, I probably would, but I'll tell you in the same breath, I loved it growing up.

— Jonathan Banks

“Boxers, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.”

— Irish" Wayne Kelly

This fight is more about what Roy Jones lost than what I took

— Antonio Tarver

Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?

— Henry Cooper

To me, boxing isn't about the other person. It's about me. My inner struggles. It works for me.

— Aleks Paunovic

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

— John Cusack

Some pay to see me win, some pay to see me lose, but they all pay.

— Anonymous

“The premiere was as exciting as the 1938 boxing match between Max Schmeling and Joe Lewis.”

— Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen

Boxing is one fight at a time for me. That's how I've always been, and that's how I was brought up.

— Dillian Whyte