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Boxing Quotes

1.
Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi Amin

Politicking is akin to pugilism - endeavoring to vanquish adversaries.
Authors on Boxing Quotes: Mike Tyson Muhammad Ali Don King Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Angelo Dundee George Foreman Lennox Lewis Sugar Ray Leonard Joe Louis Larry Holmes Manny Pacquiao Cus D'Amato Evander Holyfield Charlie Flynn Joyce Carol Oates Larry Merchant Vijender Singh Randall Cobb Willie Pep Jake LaMotta Joe Frazier Frank Bruno Holt McCallany Gerry Cooney Sonny Liston Mickey Rourke Jack Dempsey Oscar De La Hoya Roy Jones Jr. Wladimir Klitschko Harry Carpenter Sylvester Stallone Marvin Hagler
2.
If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.
Muhammad Ali

If you have not changed your outlook on life at 50 compared to when you were 20, then it is as if 30 years were squandered.
3.
To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
Cus D'Amato

Witnessing a person's downfall due to their own actions is an appalling misfortune.
4.
Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.
Muammar al-Gaddafi

Fighting sports demonstrate that humanity has not totally abolished primitive conduct.
5.
I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
Idi Amin

I aspire to be remembered as a remarkable sportsman. As a pugilist conqueror.
6.
When you get hit that's when you've got to be calm. A professional fighter has to learn how to hit and not get hit, and at the same time be exciting. That's what professional boxing is about. You've got to be clever, you've got to be smart, and not get hit, and when you're able to do this, you're a fighter.
Cus D'Amato

7.
Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali

8.
If you can hit your opponent with two punches, you don't hit him with one. Get off with some bad intentions in there. Believe in yourself. A guy can feel it if you don't believe in yourself. Set your mind to make yourself do it.
Cus D'Amato

9.
People think that boxing is all about how hard you can hit your opponent. It's not. Boxing is about how hard a hit you can take and keep going.
Justin Trudeau

10.
Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.
Cus D'Amato

11.
With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!
Jerry O'Connell

12.
The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.
Jake LaMotta

13.
I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
Mike Tyson

14.
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali

15.
I have to believe that when things are bad I can change them.
James J. Braddock

16.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Joe Louis

17.
Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?
Rocky Marciano

18.
It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.
James J. Braddock

19.
Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!
Howard Cosell

20.
It hurt to even bump into him.
Joe Louis

21.
I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.
Joe Louis

22.
Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.
Kevin Gates

23.
I never teach until I've spoken to the fighter. I have to first determine his emotional state, get his background, to find out what I have to do, how many layers I have to keep peeling off so that I get to the core of the person so that he can recognize, as well as I, what is there.
Cus D'Amato

24.
There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. You have to practice and train to become the best.
Cus D'Amato

25.
If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.
Marvin Hagler

26.
In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.
Lennox Lewis

27.
Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.
Billie Jean King

28.
All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
Jack Dempsey

29.
Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
Lennox Lewis

30.
A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.
Evander Holyfield

31.
If I did want to come back, I was going to make, what, $50 million? You know what; don't call my phone unless you've got $100 million.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

32.
Every fighter should really do that if they can, because if you build a fan base at home first, then once they receive you at home, it'll be easier to be received elsewhere.
Roy Jones Jr.

33.
We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!
Drew Bundini Brown

34.
Boxing is entertainment, so to be successful a fighter must not only win but he must win in an exciting manner. He must throw punches with bad intentions.
Cus D'Amato

35.
They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce.
Willie Pep

36.
I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating
Mike Tyson

37.
Let's get ready to rumble!
Michael Buffer

38.
We're going to do our part and we'll win because we're on God's side.
Joe Louis

39.
Some pay to see me win, some pay to see me lose, but they all pay.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

40.
Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.
Sugar Ray Leonard

41.
Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.
Sonny Liston

42.
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.
Stephen Colbert

43.
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
George Foreman

44.
When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.
Don King

45.
People who are born round don't die square.
Cus D'Amato

46.
I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.
Don King

47.
There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.
Larry Merchant

48.
I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.
Joe Frazier

49.
You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.
Gerry Cooney

50.
I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.
Marlon Starling