Boxing Quotes
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I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.'
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The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.
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During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.
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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.
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I love yoga, pilates, boxing, spinning, and weight lifting and tend to do a mix of them all.
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I suppose the "dilemma" might come up if I see a black athlete from the U.S. squaring off against a white Canadian athlete. Who do I want to identify with? I certainly will not and cannot say that race determines how I see competition. I'm certainly aware of how race plays into the way others see and portray competition some times, but I don't have to invest in it that way myself. Unless it's boxing.
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Boxing is a dying sport, really. Years ago, the world heavyweight champion could be said to have reached the highest pinnacle of sport. Even in this country, boxers were heroes. Think of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno.
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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.
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If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.
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My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.
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To me, boxing isn't about the other person. It's about me. My inner struggles. It works for me.
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I didn't even know about amateur boxing, period.
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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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Boxing and chess are similar. Its about the choice of means. Sometimes I need a pawn, a bishop or a knight to defeat my opponent. Its about finding the best way. A good boxer has to be variable. He doesnt just need to know how to punch. He must also know how to protect himself, how to defend, how to avoid the opponents punches. Only a complete fighter can become champion.
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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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This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.
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Anybody can be hurt. This is boxing.
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Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.
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I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time - I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked.
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Boxing is one fight at a time for me. That's how I've always been, and that's how I was brought up.
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Our boxing is not like the men's. It's more thoughtful, more technical. It's not just, 'Get in there and hurt someone.'
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I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
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People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.
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It's not all the time, but you get a sense when you're reading something that it's no longer about boxing or the performance. It's personal.
