1.
Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi Amin
Politicking is akin to pugilism - endeavoring to vanquish adversaries.
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
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
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
38.
We're going to do our part and we'll win because we're on God's side.
Joe Louis
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