Boxing Quotes
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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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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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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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Boxing is show-business with blood.
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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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Boxing is a science. You don't just walk into a gym and start punching. Fighters are born with differences in physical ability, but you also see a big difference in their skills. That's the trainers influence at work.
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Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.
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I didn't even know about amateur boxing, period.
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I like to do things that are noncombat- or boxing-related. So I jump rope a lot, and then I run a lot.
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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.
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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 made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.
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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.
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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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It is really important that we get more women doing exercise and being active, and those that have taken up boxing or boxing training will definitely find that it has a really positive impact on their health, fitness and well-being.
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Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.
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I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.
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Besides Scream, I liked The Purge. It stuck with me because it reminds me of boxing - you have 45 minutes to punch someone legally without consequence.
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Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.
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My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.
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I went into boxing, and I'm bisexual, and I still achieved and performed at the highest level, and I came away with gold and made history, so with that said, anything is possible.
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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.
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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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Count 10 over him - he'll get up
