Boxing Quotes · Page 36

Those kinds of fights when a warrior meets a warrior is something that should definitely take place in boxing.

— Oleksandr Usyk

Boxing is a place where, if you haven't done the training, that's going to be exposed very quickly.

— Holt McCallany

I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.

— Muhammad Ali

You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

— Muhammad Ali

Women's boxing has received a major boost from the success of 'Million Dollar Baby.'

— Thomas Hauser

“I was not raped! I had a boxing lesson! Are you both crazy?”

— Nick Pageant

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

— Bob Verdi

It's one of the biggest disappointments of my boxing career, not going to the Olympics.

— Joe Calzaghe

I just want to leave a mark on the sport of boxing so people talk about me like they talk about the…

— Terence Crawford

Wrestling is different than MMA or boxing or really any other contact sport in that you can't really draw along an opponent.

— Jordan Burroughs

You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't…

— Muhammad Ali

It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got…

— Kuno Becker

The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to…

— Lily Aldridge

I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell…

— Mike Tyson

If I'm telling people I'm boxing and then I'm eating a burger tonight, it's because I am. I'm not cheating and eating…

— Gigi Hadid

Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters;…

— David Rakoff

To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I knew about boxing, as my dad could fight. He had a successful security firm in Liverpool, and I'd see him come…

— Tony Bellew

There is still boxing, but there's just no money in it anymore. If you went around the world and asked a bunch…

— Hugh Jackman

People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than…

— Herschel Walker

Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again.…

— Don King

He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He…

— Lee Child

The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s…

— Mickey Rourke

I started off doing martial arts, and then I started kick boxing shortly after that.

— Caleb Plant

If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

— Muhammad Ali

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

— Manny Pacquiao

I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.

— Mary Kom

Whose mother wants to see her son fight? It's very hard for her - but boxing is in my blood.

— Amir Khan

Boxing's a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.

— Anthony Joshua

I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me.

— James Toney

Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.

— Edgar Ramirez

I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

— Mike Tyson

The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.

— Bernard Hopkins

We're going to do our part and we'll win because we're on God's side.

— Joe Louis

I took up boxing when I needed something to ground me a bit.

— Bugzy Malone

If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

— Joe Frazier

I think open-scoring should be a part of boxing so the public doesn't walk away with a bad feeling.

— Julio Cesar Chavez Sr

I found boxing so, so easy with incredible power, speed, and accuracy.

— Naseem Hamed