Boxing Quotes

I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.

You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.

AWWW ON THE MAIL. The mail man delivers, once again!

The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.

This fight is more about what Roy Jones lost than what I took

The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

A champion shows who he is by what he does.

Boxing is not for killing each other.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.

If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

Every man's got to figure out how to get beat sometime.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps

I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes

I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'

You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it!

It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Hey ma, your bad boy did good!

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.

I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.

Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

The only difference between street fighting and boxing is there a ref there from stopping me from killing you

Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest

When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?

Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep

Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.