Boxing Quotes
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Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they'd have a boxing match every week; they'd bring guys in from outside to fight me.
Jake LaMotta
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Wack job in the back with a black stocking cap/Jacking off to a hockey mask in a boxing match
Eminem
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I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali
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A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.
Sonny Liston
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When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.
Canelo Alvarez
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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.
Katie Taylor
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I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.
Jason Isaacs
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The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
Barry McGuigan
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You going to call me arrogant for believing in myself? Come on! It's a competitive sport. Rappin' is the closest thing to boxing. Jay-Z said that. You gotta fight every day.
Astro
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You're clearing your mind during a workout. Boxing is a great sport for girls; it's really safe.
Katie Taylor
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Where in normal neighborhoods, they would play stick ball and hockey and baseball, we used to slap box and bring boxing gloves down the street and box each other.
Eddie Alvarez
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Greb gave me a terrible whipping. My jaw was swollen from the right temple down the cheek, along the chin and part way up the other side. The referee, the ring itself, was full of my blood. If boxing was afflicted with the commission doctors that we have now, the first fight probably would have been stopped and no one would have heard of me today.
Gene Tunney
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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.
Mike Tyson
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I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.
Alexis Arguello
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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.
Laila Ali
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Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.
David Lyons
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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.
Dustin Diamond
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Sometimes emotions can win fights. Sometimes letting your feelings out in a fight can win you the fight. When it means the world to you, it's not just a sports contest - a boxing match for money or belts.
Tyson Fury
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Once or twice a week, I try to do some kind of boxing. I'm hitting the bags and jumping rope - all that stuff.
Mekhi Phifer
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I just like boxing.
Kristaps Porzingis
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He committed mayhem upon his person. He did everything to him that a man can do who is hampered with boxing gloves.
P. G. Wodehouse
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One of my all-time favorite workouts is boxing.
Cassie Scerbo
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Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
Alexis Arguello
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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.
Billy Joe Saunders