Boxing Quotes

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

I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

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.

I stop two hours before a fight

Boxing is not brutal, it's an art - God has gifted me with incredible handspeed as a tool to be used - what else am I supposed to do but fight? There ain't no hand-racing competitions.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends

He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life

How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

Boxing is the gift I have been given for whatever reason and I'd love to honour God in everything I do.

What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?

I do believe he’s the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he’s one of the greatest men I’ve ever met.

I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him.

If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

Do you recognise me?" he asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognise you.

The fight for survival is the fight

Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

Las Vegas is the boxing capital. During a Floyd Mayweather fight weekend, you can shop, party, stay out late and do anything you want. The city of Las Vegas has everything.

I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.

I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

My kid could move like a lightweight

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

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.

In all my years in boxing I'd never known such heat

Sit down, son. It's all over. No-one will ever forget what you did here today

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.

The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.

I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.

Lie down so I can recognise you

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.

You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him.

Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg.

He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.