Boxing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.
-- Adrien Broner -
Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?
-- Alan Cooper -
Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.
-- Alan Minter -
Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
-- Alexis Arguello -
See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.
-- Alexis Arguello -
I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?
-- Allison Pearson -
Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.
-- Amnat Ruenroeng -
British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.
-- Andre Maurois -
I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.
-- Andre Ward -
Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.
-- Andy Murray -
Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.
-- Angelo Dundee -
It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.
-- Angelo Dundee -
Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.
-- Angelo Dundee -
You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem.
-- Angelo Dundee -
In all my years in boxing I'd never known such heat
-- Angelo Dundee -
This kid deserves anything good that happens to him. He's such a good guy. He's just the nicest human being you want to meet.
-- Angelo Dundee -
I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.
-- Angelo Dundee -
The match would have to be made at 165 pounds. Sean can't make 160 any more, even though he's drinking lite beer these days
-- Angelo Dundee -
The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep
-- Angelo Dundee -
Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.
-- Angelo Dundee -
Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined.
-- Angelo Dundee -
When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.
-- Angelo Dundee -
I never knew about a lot of the outside things
-- Angelo Dundee -
He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him.
-- Angelo Dundee -
I loved the movie for the simple reason that I saw the scenes and I saw Muhammad working with these guys.
-- Angelo Dundee -
Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him.
-- Angelo Dundee -
What's his name? I tried to forget him because if he would have fought like he worked with my guy he would have knocked the guy out.
-- Angelo Dundee -
This fight is more about what Roy Jones lost than what I took
-- Antonio Tarver -
Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?
-- Antonio Tarver -
All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.
-- Athol Fugard -
I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.
-- Barry McGuigan -
Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
-- Barry McGuigan -
The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
-- Barry McGuigan -
That was a good fight back in the gym,†he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
There are so many things I've done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It's going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.
-- Bernard Hopkins -
This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.
-- Bernard Hopkins -
What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?
-- Billy Conn -
Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.
-- Billy Joe Saunders -
There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.
-- Billy Joe Saunders -
Don King sucks...Don King sucks...Don King sucks...
-- Bob Arum -
I'm gonna make a ton of money on the rematch, but that decision was horrible.
-- Bob Arum -
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
-- Bob Fitzsimmons -
When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.
-- Bob Seger -
Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.
-- Bryce Courtenay -
As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
-- Budd Schulberg -
Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
-- Cara Castronuova -
It's only boxing, don't worry about it. Let's get it on!
-- Carl Froch -
One of my all-time favorite workouts is boxing.
-- Cassie Scerbo -
AWWW ON THE MAIL. The mail man delivers, once again!
-- Charlie Flynn -
Sometimes you need to be awkward to beat awkwardness
-- Charlie Flynn -
I couldn't believe, I felt as if, like I said, I was going to drap deed y'knaw't a mean?
-- Charlie Flynn -
I'd like to thank ma da (dad)... my mum for doin' aw ma washin'
-- Charlie Flynn -
Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!
-- Charlie Flynn -
Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.
-- Charlie Flynn -
That'd be good. That'd be a right good laugh, man. Ye cannae catch me shuttin' up, man
-- Charlie Flynn -
I'm not a big drinker. I don't really drink at all. But my dad and his pals will want to have a good swally because their nerves will be in some state, man!
-- Charlie Flynn -
...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.
-- Chuck Wepner -
If you're dedicated to something and you put the time in, why should anyone have an opinion on it? Halif of the people who comment about women's boxing don't even watch it.
-- Claressa Shields -
The side's all right, but my bloody knees are killing me!
-- Dai Dower -
In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.
-- Damon Runyon -
I'd hate to compare anyone with Sugar Ray Robinson, but Donald is the closest thing to Robinson I've ever seen
-- Dave Gorman -
I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.
-- David Bailey -
Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.
-- David Lyons -
I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York
-- David Wright -
I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.
-- Dean Norris -
Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.
-- Dick Schaap -
Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.
-- Dick Schaap -
My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.
-- Diego Corrales -
When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.
-- Dolph Lundgren -
If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
-- Don King -
You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.
-- Don King -
When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.
-- Don King -
I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly
-- Don King -
Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank
-- Don King -
I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
-- Don King -
Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it.
-- Don King -
Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit.
-- Don King -
I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.
-- Don King -
If he says he has the pizzazz and the sizzle, I have the steak, and substance. I've made more money than he's made. I've made bigger deals than he's made, when he's got the complexion to get the protection.
-- Don King -
Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.
-- Don King -
If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.
-- Don King -
You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal.
-- Don King -
I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.
-- Don King -
People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top.
-- Don King -
You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.
-- Don King -
From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.
-- Don King -
There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.
-- Don King -
Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.
-- Don King -
I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
-- Don King
