Boxing Quotes

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

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?

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.

Got any excuses tonight Roy?

Through Biblical times, there have been great women warriors and now the sport is so populated that these are the women warriors that we have today in boxing, kickboxing, and MMA.

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!

There's nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.

I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.

There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.

I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.

There is no fighter smarter than me.

Boxing's all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds.

The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.

My way of joking is to tell the truth

I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.'

Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.

From now on, match me with one guy at a time.

The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me.

For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.

I'm like a bottle of milk with gloves.

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

At noon I get to the gym to do my boxing workout. Three hours there. Rest. Once in a while I get a massage, because I need it once in while.

I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.

When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.

Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a great fighter, came to such an ignominious end.

The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.

I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight.

I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.

Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me

I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.

I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.

I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened.

I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.

Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.