Boxing Quote by Tricky

A lot of fights in my life have been avoided through confidence and demeanor, so that's pretty masculine also.

— Urijah Faber

My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work…

— Claressa Shields

I had always been pegged for being feminine. People would always say, 'Ooh, that's a pretty little girl.' They would talk about my eyelashes…

— Angelica Ross

I wasn't a masculine kid; I was pretty effeminate.

— Carmen Carrera

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

— Gwen Stefani

I guess Im a role model now, and that is a privilege. I think women were fighting because we wanted to be feminine. Then…

— Zoe Saldana

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.

— Ricky Hatton

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot,…

— Agnes Smedley

Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice…

— Mark Hoppus

I fight the same as a man. I train the same as a man. I think this is different from other girls.

— Cris Cyborg

A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.

— Brenda Holloway