Top 454 Boxing Quotes

This is not a sport for me – I live boxing. I’ve been boxing since I was seven years old.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

I think we have tremendous media covering the sport of boxing, even if boxing is a little bit lost in popularity with MMA sports. And I think that with the show ‘Lights Out’ it’s going to get more attention to the sport, and it’s going to put more attention to the problems that athletes in general have.

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

Boxing? She’s like a woman. If you’ve never wooed her, never won her, you always look back wondering what would have happened had you had her. If you caught her and had a long relationship, you don’t really look back. Do I miss her? No, because I’ve had her, I’ve moved on.

My job is to work my best boxing in the ring.

I started on the phones, taking orders, and then I did the toppings, making the pizzas, cutting and boxing them – everything, really.

I’d love to be in a real boxing match, but I can’t because of my face. I’m an actor!

I like boxing.

I can take over boxing with a win over Pacquiao.

I love the British public and the British fans; they are true boxing fans. If you get them on your side, you can go right to the end and achieve anything in life.

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.

Maidana has to make me respect his power and his boxing skills.

My missus has had to put up with me boxing for so long.

A good wrestler, with good jiu jitsu and great boxing, can beat Fedor.

When I got cast in ‘Rocky IV,’ I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

I came here from Jamaica as a kid and didn’t go to school, really, never had a great education. I was a little bit bad on the street, running around, doing this, doing that, and always getting into trouble. I was completely written off, so boxing has definitely saved my life.

I saw a chance to make the 1988 Olympic boxing team and forgot all about football.

There’s a lot of politics in boxing and it’s destroying the game.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.

You’re either good at boxing, or you’re not.

I think the boxing game is supposed to be a gentleman’s sport.

Boxing is very one dimensional. You can hit to the head, you can hit to the body. As soon as two guys get into a clinch, you’re separated.

Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.

I’ve been in the boxing ring, taking punches to my face. I’ve always got back up.

I started at a small school in Virginia, and I learned how to wrestle – at least take falls – in a boxing ring.

I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They’re not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you’re working out you can eat better.

A lot of people say I’ve got an old head on young shoulders and I think that’s because I’d been around boxing for a long time before I actually started doing it.

I’ve trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I won’t get there to fight my opponent’s game.

Youngsters taking up boxing will get a lot of encouragement to do something for the country, seeing my laurels.

There’s so much talent around here, east London in particular is full of talent. Whether that be boxing or football or music.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

Oh, there’s nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

However controversial Mayweather may be, he doesn’t bring down the name of boxing. The fast cars, the jets and the money causes controversy but that does not bring the game down.

Boxing’s a funny business and sometimes different fights come along at different times.

I’d say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.

The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once disappear when the contestants cover their hands with large, soft-leather gloves.

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

I’ve never boxed before in my life. I’ve had one day’s training at a boxing gym, and it’s an incredibly difficult sport.

I got real bored in ’96. Wasn’t nobody to fight. Nothing to look forward to. That’s when I started playing basketball again. Had I not started playing basketball, my boxing career would have failed. But I went from a sport where nobody could touch me to another where I couldn’t touch nobody.

I think the beauty and mystery of boxing is just the immediacy of how it reveals people unlike anything else.

I was a bad kid. I was a bad and good kid in and out of the boxing gym.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

There’s a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.

It’s boxing. It’s about getting people interested. If I didn’t say some stupid things from time to time, there wouldn’t be that many people interested in me. But I let my fists do the talking when the bell rings.

People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

I made some adaptations, as I combined karate with my boxing game. I’m adding a couple of nice things from Shotokan to my game.

You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there’s only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

I was lucky. I held on to some of my money. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do after boxing. But I found what I wanted to do.

I want the best and to get the most out of my short boxing career by fighting the best I can.

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

Boxing has been great for me because it’s, like, my new sport, so it’s something that I can get better at.

My team members are Hector Soto, who is a boxing promoter and Vice-president of Miguel Cotto Promotions. He runs all my business. He was the person that my father left in charge of it all. Bryan Perez is my right-hand man.

I did a bit of boxing when younger. Once I was joined by Muhammad Ali as my co-commentator. I’ve got a picture of the two of us together ringside at the Albert Hall on my wall at home.

I’m carrying the sport of women’s boxing and I am the best woman fighter and that’s my role.

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

When I win, I send shock waves through the boxing world.

I want to shock the world, and I’m going to do that through boxing.

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

I want to become a star in the United States because I want to show everyone quality boxing.

I’m sure ‘Boxing Helena’ will eclipse ‘Twin Peaks’ and Audrey Home for me. If people here go see it.

A Boxing Day Test match is a fantastic occasion.

I like Britain because that is where boxing was born.

It’s a beautiful sport, boxing, when you’re winning and everything is going well but when you hit the lows it really upsets you.

I have a personal trainer. But I tried boxing; I tried ballet. I tried everything to see what works best for my body.

It’s very rare in British boxing that you have two fighters who are both undefeated and who are both world champions.

Boxing has been the most difficult thing I’ve ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.