Top 150 Boxer Quotes

I’m not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.

As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.

The project that I did between ‘Boxer & Saints’ was ‘The Shadow Hero,’ which is illustrated by Sonny Liew, an artist who lives in Singapore.

Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you’re entertaining people.

I want to do things that no one has ever done inside the ring and outside the ring as a boxer and further my career in the entertainment business after I’m done with boxing.

Jiu-Jitsu is the bond or styles all between all the other styles. Take Jiu-Jitsu out, a boxer is just a boxer, a kickboxer is just a kickboxer. Take Jiu-Jitsu out of the wrestling – what is he going to do, take the person down and? There’s no finishing holds, there’s no striking.

I just want to make money, get on with my life, and be involved in good fights. If I’m not going to be involved in good fights, then what’s the point being a boxer?

My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

Too many Californians are struggling to make ends meet, pay the bills, and send their kids to college. They are looking for progressive leaders in Washington who will fight for them, like Senator Boxer has done for over 20 years.

On a week night I’ll be with the family. I’ve got a six-year-old brother, Solomon, he’s gonna be a boxer for sure, a world champion in the making. We talk boxing and just bounce off each other’s energy.

With ‘Boxer,’ we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn’t really worry about what the expectation was.

I’m a pure boxer. I have lightning speed that hurts guys. But I love to box. I love to be on my back foot. I love to work my jab and combinations.

I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn’t think I could pull that off. I’m a little short to be a basketball player!

When I was scheduled to fight in Japan, and then I would come back to the United States, I would have to train, but there was nobody to train here. There was no such thing as a striker going with a grappler, or a striker going to the ground with a grappler, or a grappler standing up and fighting with a boxer.

The average MMA guys have a boxer’s stance which makes it easier for a wrestler when they try and take you down. I tend to stand sideways and that gives them only one leg to shoot for, it tends to make it more difficult to try and take me down.

I’m not a boxer, I’m a basketball player.

I respect Haye as a man and for being a former two-weight world champion. But not as a boxer.

This sport started with the question, Who would win, a karate guy or a boxer? A judo guy or a wrestler? That was the original draw behind the sport. That’s what caught everybody’s attention.

I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don’t think I’ve written any great songs.

Rigondeaux is a high-class boxer. He is smart, has speed and skill.

I’m a boxer by nature, so, obviously, the jab is always key – but it is nice to know you’ve got a right hand behind it.

Panamanian boxing is unique – it’s very musical. It’s almost like a dance. It has a lot to do with being in the Caribbean and with salsa. When you see a Panamanian boxer, there’s a style. There’s a playfulness in the way you throw the punches.

There is a world of difference between being a reality TV star and a world champion boxer.

Yes, I started off as a bare-knuckle boxer.

I became a professional boxer because I want the attention and interest to come back to boxing. I want people interested in boxing. That’s very important to me.

I still get knickers thrown on stage, but not as much as they used to. In fact, I get bloke’s boxer shorts thrown on and someone rolled a coconut on stage the other night.

I’m not a boxer.

It’s just a personal challenge, I’d like to see how I can do as a boxer.

I want to be the first boxer to generate a billion dollars.

I just don’t know how I was able to be a boxer in the first place without believing God.

My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.

It’s great to be boxing a local boxer. The atmosphere is always fantastic. I love those fights. I really relish those fights.

If an MMA fighter is going to call out a boxer it’s got to make sense.

‘Iron’ Mike Tyson is the last boxer who was truly embraced by the media. They followed him around. You didn’t know what he was going to do next: bite you, cut you, fight you. When you think about it, that defines him – it was an exciting adventure.

I’m a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

I went to an all-girls school in a uniform and always got detention for wearing colorful boxer shorts under my kilt.

I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.

Whatever any boxer does in the ring, I don’t think any reporter should call him a coward. Anyone who does that I lose complete respect for. There’s a difference between being a coward and being scared, or apprehensive. Different fighters have got different mentalities.

I’m super, super casual. I like boxer shorts or jeans or tank tops, tennis shoes and flip flops. That’s about it for me.

There are always improvements to make, no boxer in the world does everything right.

The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.

I think I do pose the biggest threat to Aldo. I feel like my boxing is better than his. He’s a kick boxer, with devastating kicks. Neither one of us cares to take it to the ground. I feel with my unpredictability and my boxing, I pose a big threat to him.

Interestingly, my role in the Tamil and Telegu version of ‘Dabaang’ is that of a boxer.

The Democratic policy is any abortion, any time, for any reason at any point in a woman’s pregnancy, right up until the last minute, to be paid by taxpayers. Barbara Boxer described this policy as, ‘It’s not a life until it leaves the hospital.’

At first, when ‘Boxer’ came out, people were a little let down, and we worried that it might be the end for us. But then it began to grow on people. ‘Boxer’ bought us our creative freedom.

I could never leave Las Vegas. I can’t really afford New York or Los Angeles. I love this town. We don’t have that much. We have the Runnin’ Rebels and boxer Floyd Mayweather. When Mayweather fights, it’s good for the whole city. It’s like the Super Bowl out here.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

It’s unbelievable when I think back to when I was a kid that one day I would have achieved so much through boxing, and to think my teachers laughed at me when I said I was going to be a boxer.

I don’t want to be the country’s best-kept boxing secret. I want to cross over from being a boxer on the back pages to the front pages and become the big superstar I deserve to be.

I am a boxer for the people. I am one of them.

If I had the choice I’d be a boxer or a footballer.

I don’t need to hit people in order to play good football. I’m not a boxer after all.

We used tea towels for gloves until we got proper ones and were always breaking our mum’s ornaments. She’d come home and find us all sat in our boxer shorts, out of breath and our skin red raw. She hated it.

‘I Am Legend’ is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn’t get that going in my mind. I don’t know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from.

I’ve got to take measured steps and avoid the pitfalls. Life in general has pitfalls, but being a boxer there’s even more.

Broner is a very good puncher. He’s a very good boxer, very good puncher.

I’ve become a better boxer and a better person.

The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.

I had built my body to look like a boxer, then I lost it completely for ‘Tanu Weds Manu Returns.’ It was really tough gaining weight, building muscles, and then losing it completely for another film.