Boxing Quotes
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Trejo is one of the oldest boxing gyms in Cuba; it's outdoor, and every great champion the country has produced has passed through and was forged in the open air.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
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When it comes to damage, boxing will cause more damage than MMA ever will.
Chuck Liddell
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In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.
Lennox Lewis
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Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.
Amnat Ruenroeng
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I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set - and they're both working.
Willie Pep
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Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.
Bud Collins
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Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.
Alexis Arguello
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I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.
Louis C. K.
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We need to get more people watching boxing. I love this sport and anything we can do to help it is great.
Chris Algieri
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When I was up in college, I had a friend, and he was the only guy who knew I wasn't going to be able to attend school no more because I had a child on the way. I remember we was right at the lunch table. I was like, 'Man, I should start boxing.' I felt like every fighter that's on TV made a lot of money. I was like, 'You gotta make a lot of money.'
Deontay Wilder
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I want to bring something new to boxing.
Vasyl Lomachenko
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I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.
Sung Hi Lee
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I was a gorilla boxer. I had a full gorilla suit on with boxing gloves. I had an amateur belt on. No one knew that it was me in the costume and I was going into stores and scaring people and boxing on them. It was fun.
Daniel Jacobs
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Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find myself like others, having the heart of a Steiglitz with hands that sometimes seem impeded by boxing gloves. What is exasperating is that one can feel closer to managing the skills of photography than most other arts, and yet be a long hop, skip and delusional way from it.
Norman Corwin
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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.
Raymond Cruz
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Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
Joe Frazier
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Boxing is about hunger.
Diego Luna
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Do you recognise me?" he asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognise you.
Willie Pep
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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.
Lennox Lewis
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When I was a kid, I did martial arts because boxing wasn't really available on Long Island. I think now kids are able to begin boxing earlier. So it's great and whatever can promote the sport on a whole is a good thing. And if we can do it on Long Island, where I am from, it's a beautiful thing.
Chris Algieri
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Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
Kris Kristofferson
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In boxing, it just seemed to me from the time I was a very small child, we have a peculiarly civilized form in that boxers don't screech and holler. They don't use weapons. When the bell rings, they fight; when the bell rings again, they stop.
Katherine Dunn
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Boxing never hurt me at all.
Jake LaMotta
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That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.
George Foreman