Competition Quote by Robert Baden-Powell

“Boxing is a sport, and nothing more than a contest between two men – a contest of strength, stamina, willingness, and raw talent.”

— Scott Hildreth

With amateur boxing, you're just entered into a competition. And to be the best, you've got to beat the best. You're not waiting around…

— Katie Taylor

Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out…

— Cus D'Amato

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 understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how…

— Jake Hecht

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

— Howard Cosell

Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can…

— F.X. Toole

Boxing is sport. Is good. Not just for bad guy.

— Gennady Golovkin

I suppose the appeal of boxing for me is seeing people do well when they have worked really hard.

— Karren Brady

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

The beauty about boxing fights is that they offer lots of opportunity to really learn something about yourself and your opponent.

— Jean Pascal

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to…

— Jimmy Smits