Boxing Quotes
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I don't watch TV dramas. I watch ESPN, HBO boxing, National Geographic Channel and I kind of like to get some DVDs, movies that I haven't seen and I just pop them in.
Dominic Purcell
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Boxing is not that complicated. If two guys want to fight, it's not hard to make a fight. If the fight's not made, it's because one party doesn't want that fight, or maybe both parties don't want it.
Andre Ward
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If I'm telling people I'm boxing and then I'm eating a burger tonight, it's because I am. I'm not cheating and eating a salad and then being like "Yeah! Burgers are cool!"
Gigi Hadid
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To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.
Dan Hill
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Boxing is a lonely sport.
Andre Ward
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There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both.
Canelo Alvarez
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It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.
Kuno Becker
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Sugar Ray wouldn't give me a rematch, and that's the reason I walked away from boxing.
Marvin Hagler
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Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.
Irvine Welsh
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Nothing will kill boxing, and nothing can save it.
Larry Merchant
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When you talking boxing, you talking me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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My opinion, football is the most dangerous sport there is. After that, I'll give it to probably boxing.
Jon Jones
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I have a personal trainer. But I tried boxing; I tried ballet. I tried everything to see what works best for my body.
Barbara Palvin
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It would be a dream to be the face of boxing, to be No. 1.
Canelo Alvarez
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If you're a 50-year-old guy, and you're sitting around the house with - you know, and just getting fatter, feeling sorry for yourself, get up and move your body and see what it does to your life and to your mind and to your happiness and to your energy levels. And I get all that from boxing.
Peter Berg
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Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.
Canelo Alvarez
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Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
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People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.
Morgan Freeman
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Boxing is the sweet science. You hit and not get hit. There's no reward for you to hit me more than I hit you other than on the scorecards.
Bernard Hopkins
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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.
Eddie Futch
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I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because I look a certain way doesn't mean I'm weak.
Brittany Snow
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The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise.
John Boyle O'Reilly
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To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.
John Garfield