Boxing Quotes
826 Boxing quotes by 263 unique authors
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I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.
— Gene Tunney
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Honey, I just forgot to duck.
— Jack Dempsey
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Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.
— Roger Kahn
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As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
— Budd Schulberg
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The side's all right, but my bloody knees are killing me!
— Unknown Author
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Some were scattered about the ring, one or two went in the sawdust tub, one I spat out as I fell, and I am thundering…
— Unknown Author
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In America they had no chance - I knocked them all cold in America
— Unknown Author
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The greatest fighter I ever saw
— Gene Tunney
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I can't say that I ever worried much about what people thought or said of me. I like to be liked, and have often wished…
— Unknown Author
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After the mines, what is fighting? Fighting is child's play
— Tommy Farr
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As long as there's this welfare state of ours we're not going to have any good fighters
— Tommy Farr
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The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep
— Angelo Dundee
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A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em
— Muhammad Ali
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Sit down, son. It's all over. No-one will ever forget what you did here today
— Eddie Futch
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Count 10 over him - he'll get up
— Wilson Mizner
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First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends
— Willie Pep
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Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago
— Ernest Hemingway
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On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't…
— Jake LaMotta
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People tell me it was a great left hook, but I wouldn't know. I never saw it
— Unknown Author
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Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me
— Mike Tyson
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It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10
— Sonny Liston
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Talk of fighting Tyson is a little premature. I'm an addict and an alcoholic
— Unknown Author
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Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist
— Harry Greb
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I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before…
— Muhammad Ali
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All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble…
— Randall Cobb
Who Wrote These Boxing Quotes
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