Boxing Quotes
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I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.
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It's great to be boxing a local boxer. The atmosphere is always fantastic. I love those fights. I really relish those fights.
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A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But thats complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that youve still got it, that its still getting better.
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There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.
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I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wanted to do it. So, it didn't come from me watching my father. I didn't know the sport existed; therefore, I wasn't really interested in it until I saw it.
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The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.
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He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.
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Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look weak and stupid in front of 17 million people. That's just not gonna happen.
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Oh, my gosh! Can you imagine learning boxing from Sylvester Stallone's character? I would die!
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I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.
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I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.
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Looking back, I'm surprised I had the nerve to do it, but I'm glad I did. Performing the songs and performing in film was just a part of my personality, just like football and boxing at one point in my life. I was able to lose myself in both of them, and that was a good feeling.
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I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.
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On boxing For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.
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While professional basketball, football, and baseball players make millions and their salaries represent well over 50% of the billions generated by those sports, the spoils of boxing don't often make it to the boxers.
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I could have 10 kids or be boxing until I'm 40.
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My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.
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Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.
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My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.
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I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.
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Nick Diaz is a guy who walks forward, has great boxing skills.
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Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.
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James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.
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Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.
