Boxing Quotes

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

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.

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I have to believe that when things are bad I can change them.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

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

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.

Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

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.

It hurt to even bump into him.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating

Let's get ready to rumble!

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

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

Some pay to see me win, some pay to see me lose, but they all pay.

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.

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

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.

People who are born round don't die square.

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

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.

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

I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.

Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.

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.