Boxing Quotes
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He's like the Muhammad Ali of football. Muhammad Ali was the trash-talker of boxing. It's funny, though. It really is.
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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
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Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career.
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Boxing's a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.
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Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
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Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
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In a boxing match, the fighters absorb some vicious blows because they’re ready for them. And usually, the knockout punch is the one they didn’t see coming.
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I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.
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Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.
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To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.
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Sometimes emotions can win fights. Sometimes letting your feelings out in a fight can win you the fight. When it means the world to you, it's not just a sports contest - a boxing match for money or belts.
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I don't know how my mother did it, but I had boxing gloves on my hands when I was born!
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Patience is a part of boxing. After I had missed out on the Olympic gold medal in 1984, a lot of people tried to talk me into turning professional quickly to make money. They told me that the next Olympics in Seoul would be boycotted again, that I was wasting my life, blah blah. But I still had unfinished business. I wanted the gold medal, and I got it in 88. Only then was I ready to turn professional.
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America is the mecca of boxing, and they've had some great champions here. It's good to establish your skills and let people know what you're about in the States.
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If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.
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Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.
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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.
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Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.
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I had to start boxing because I missed working on something and learning and I guess there's a little more aggression in boxing. I couldn't really get that side of me out, but I used to be able to by hitting a volleyball. That's why I started boxing.
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First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends
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My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.
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In boxing, everybody has their favorites.
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My mom had struggles. My dad had struggles. He raised me as a single parent. I rebelled and almost quit amateur boxing, but my faith in God had a lot to do with me slowly getting my life together.
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Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.
