Boxing Quotes

The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.

For me, boxing isn't about hurting each other. Boxing is entertainment and making people happy.

I never compare myself to anybody. I don't look at my accomplishments compared to anyone. I'm happy with what I've accomplished in boxing.

In boxing, you never know who you're going to face in the ring.

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

I sometimes say I am in a relationship with boxing.

I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required.

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.

I'm not even a household name in my own household

If he's not dead, it doesn't count.

I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.

It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy

Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

What really amazed me was when I sent a suit out for cleaning, forgetting that $700 was in the pocket. They sent the suit back to me. If that happened in New York, both money and suit would be gone.

I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.

He was screaming like my wife.

I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end

That's all they said was wrong with me?

Sued King for $100 million, alleging the boxing promoter cheated him out of millions over more than a decade. It was settled out of court for $14 million.

I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do

King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked.

My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?

Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.

I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.

I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end.

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.

I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.

But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all.

Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.

If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!

You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight.

Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.

Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.