Boxing Quotes · Page 21

I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.

— Joe Frazier

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.

— Barbara Johnson

“[W]hat is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?”

— Catherynne M. Valente

When it comes to damage, boxing will cause more damage than MMA ever will.

— Chuck Liddell

I didn't make the most of school, but boxing has given me discipline.

— Anthony Joshua

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

— Mickey Rourke

I first got into boxing when I was quite young. I was about 12 when I won my first boxing match.

— Joseph Parker

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

— Andrei Arlovski

I did boxing for three years, and that was very nice. It's a hard but great, great sport. I really love the…

— Paolo Maldini

I have respect for Chisora as a fighter but not as a human. He set a bad example for boxing and all…

— Vitali Klitschko

I want to be the Cassius Clay of snooker. Cassius is the greatest at boxing and that's what I mean to be…

— Alex Higgins

“The world will give you relief once ina while, a brief time out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your…

— Lily Owens

I'm not here to judge Mike Tyson. I'm not here to judge nobody. I'm not here to monitor no other fighters. I…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm…

— Vijender Singh

The life of a boxing athlete is short, so I don't have time to waste or time to take tune-up fights or…

— Vasyl Lomachenko

There is an age limit of 35 on amateur boxing. They should consider putting an age limit on professional boxing.

— Carl Froch

I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports.…

— Kirk Acevedo

I want to be remembered as the man who changed the pay scale for featherweights, who put the sparkle back in boxing…

— Naseem Hamed

One that we can admire aesthetically and participate viscerally in. So the goal here, and we've had some early, small screenings, what…

— Shawn Anthony Levy

There's nothing wrong with options. Options are everywhere. In movies, in sports. Options is not a dirty word. I need to pay…

— Don King

I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was…

— Emanuel Steward

When we started training with WWE, coaches were impressed and asked if we had had boxing training. I said no, it was…

— Nikki Bella

I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am…

— Muhammad Ali

I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.

— Don King

I'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it.

— Don King

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

— Eddie Shaw

I want to shock the world, and I'm going to do that through boxing.

— Ryan Garcia

If there was such a thing as re-incarnation, Floyd would come back as himself

— Ricky Hatton

Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?

— Rocky Marciano

I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.

— Muhammad Ali

I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.

— Marlon Starling

I think I have a high boxing IQ and I do this at a really high level.

— Caleb Plant

What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

— Catherynne M. Valente

He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life

— George Chuvalo

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

— George Foreman

Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed…

— Angelo Dundee

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

— Dan Duva

When I'm boxing, if my career isn't going well, at least I feel mentally and physically strong.

— Liam Hemsworth

I'm back in Boston. I own an outdoor deck hockey rink, and I own a boxing gym here also.

— Micky Ward