Boxing Quote by Muhammad Ali

“It doesn't do any good to fight with Sonny. Sonny just moves back, inside himself, where he can't be reached.”

— James Baldwin

Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.

— Muhammad Ali

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before…

— Muhammad Ali

When you're around some of the greatest minds in boxing, and you don't take something from it, you're a fool. I would just sit…

— Eric B

“There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of…

— John A. Passaro

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

— Thomas a Kempis

“This is the legend of Cassius Clay, The most beautiful fighter in the world today. He talks a great deal, and brags indeed-y, of…

— Muhammad Ali

I can't spare this man, he fights!

— Abraham Lincoln

“Boxer altered his course subtly, as if that was the way he'd already been going, not looking up to acknowledge he had heard, letting…

— douglas preston

When I was a kid, I wanted to fight Joe Louis. But I think if I had seen Mike Tyson at that time, I…

— Jake LaMotta

“He’s fighting the world.” And now, I watch as the underdog in the middle of the circle fights on and stands and falls and…

— Markus Zusak

'Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar smoke, which…

— Elvis Mitchell