Boxing Quote by George Foreman

I'm not in favor of that [mandating protective headgear ] because we learn as amateurs how to protect ourselves. And that's why there's a…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing can be so important to young people, it keeps you off the street and you can channel your energy and aggression in the…

— Nigel Benn

From a young age, I was told boxing was not a career option. My dad told me there were other ways to make a…

— Chris Eubank Jr

If boxing had a professional boxing association or something like that, I think it would be a better place.

— Ricky Hatton

I think boxing is an incredible sport and I would like to see it really become regulated because I think it could bring back…

— Dom Irrera

On a personal level, I probably wouldn't want my boys to box professionally. But I do encourage them to get into boxing training -…

— Joe Calzaghe

There's not a lot of things to look out for in amateur boxing. Once the headgear comes off, once the 10-ounce gloves come on…

— Daniel Jacobs

Boxers are role models for a lot of young people. The sporting aspects should always be more important than business aspects.

— Alexander Povetkin

The only thing I'd like to see is to give fighters an option to wear a small headguard, a one-ounce headguard. Some fighters might…

— Larry Holmes

Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline,…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

I was a huge boxing fan, but it's a sport where the guys punch each other in the head. I thought maybe I shouldn't…

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career.

— Chris Penn