Boxing Quotes

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.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

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.

I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.

Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

I cant believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to.

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.

We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last.

It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.

Honey, I just forgot to duck.

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.

If I'm telling people I'm boxing and then I'm eating a burger tonight, it's because I am. I'm not cheating and eating a salad and then being like "Yeah! Burgers are cool!"

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.

My arms are too short to box with God.

I'm not God, but I am something similar.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!'

It's hard to get up at 6am when you're wearing silk pyjamas.

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.

I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.

I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.

I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.

All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.

On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.

Rocky Marciano stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump.

Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.

The one thing I can't get enough of is boxing. I love sparring in the ring or just doing the training, and it's easily one of the most effective ways of keeping off fat.

I'm always having fun in training and in boxing. I think it's because boxing is my passion.

Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

The greatest fighter I ever saw

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

Well, that's cricket Harry. These things happen in boxing

Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind.

I was so good at boxing because I worked hard. I worked harder than anybody. When other boxers used to box in the gym, three or four rounds, I used to box 10-20 rounds.

Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.