Boxing Quotes

• 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.

  

  Danny Garcia
  • Boxing
  • Consequence
  • Scream

• 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.

  

  Nicola Adams
  • Women
  • Health
  • Boxing

• I love yoga, pilates, boxing, spinning, and weight lifting and tend to do a mix of them all.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Yoga
  • Boxing
  • Lifting

• 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
  • Tennis
  • Boxing
  • Worlds

• A lot of these kids have no fathers, and they want to be gangsters. They don't believe in God and have no faith in anything but their own instincts. Boxing provides a way for them to express themselves in a positive way, and I'm happy to be able to help them.

  

  Bobby Slayton
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Happy

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

  

  George Foreman
  • Funny
  • Said
  • Yeah

• Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

  

  Joe Frazier
  • Money
  • Book
  • Brain

• Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • God
  • Boxing
  • Ring

• 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.

  

  Frank Darabont
  • Stupid
  • Succeed
  • Falling

• 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
  • Up
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• 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.

  

  George Elliott Clarke
  • Competition
  • Athlete
  • Determine

• I like to do things that are noncombat- or boxing-related. So I jump rope a lot, and then I run a lot.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Jump
  • Boxing

• 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.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Business
  • Successful
  • Boxing

• To me, boxing isn't about the other person. It's about me. My inner struggles. It works for me.

  

  Aleks Paunovic
  • Boxing
  • Struggles
  • Inner

• Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Violence
  • Champion
  • Boxing

• For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.

  

  Molly Sims
  • Months
  • Momentum
  • Spinning

• 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.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • World
  • Country
  • Dying

• I didn't even know about amateur boxing, period.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Period
  • Boxing

• 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
  • Long
  • Art
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Peter Berg
  • People
  • Football
  • Soldier

• I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set - and they're both working.

  

  Willie Pep
  • Great
  • Made
  • Boxing

• 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.

  

  George Tahdooahnippah
  • Boxing
  • Grew Up
  • Wrestler

• If I could ban boxing, I probably would, but I'll tell you in the same breath, I loved it growing up.

  

  Jonathan Banks
  • Growing Up
  • Boxing
  • Breath

• Boxing is one fight at a time for me. That's how I've always been, and that's how I was brought up.

  

  Dillian Whyte
  • Time
  • Fight
  • Boxing

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