Boxing isn’t a career. Acting is it for me. But they’re both very therapeutic.
When I started boxing, people laughed at me and said, ‘What can women do in boxing?’ I took it as a challenge. If men can do it, why can’t women? And I became a world champion before my marriage.
When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.
Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.
Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won’t ever forget that.
I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like ‘Raging Bull’, ‘Rocky’, ‘The Set Up’, ‘Fat City and Hard Times’. I just loved those films.
I’m a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.
When you’re actually boxing, unless it’s a proper grudge match, it’s less about beating the person up and more about being better within yourself. Being patient, timing things, like chess, so really, it’s as much down to you as what the other person does – and that’s life.
Boxing is a lonely sport.
Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.
Canelo, he is not a champion. He is a liar who has no respect for the sport of boxing or its fans.
Joe Louis was one of my closest friends…. I’m a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside.
Phenomenal boxing fans, I’ve never seen anything like it, everywhere I go people screaming ‘let’s go champ’ it’s just amazing; kids, elderly people, when it comes to boxing you can’t beat Great Britain.
I’m probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I’ve written.
The heavyweight division is the division that historically always drives boxing. It’s the flagship. That’s because even if a guy is a big underdog, one punch turns everything around.
A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another.
One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.
Once or twice a week, I try to do some kind of boxing. I’m hitting the bags and jumping rope – all that stuff.
I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble family and was taught by my father to be a family man and be committed to them. I stepped into boxing following my older brothers.
I wouldn’t call myself a feminist. I am just me. I like boxing and acting and doing my charity work.
Boxing is a mug’s game.
So much of boxing is to do with your mental state. Evander Holyfield talks about spirit. I definitely have that spirit and feel like I’ve got something special inside me. It’s about me bringing it out, controlling it and using it to become world champion.
Oh, sure, I love boxing.
See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that’s why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.
Looking back, I’m surprised I had the nerve to do it, but I’m glad I did. Performing the songs and performing in film was just a part of my personality, just like football and boxing at one point in my life. I was able to lose myself in both of them, and that was a good feeling.
Every boy in a free country ought to be instructed in boxing, wrestling, and the use of weapons. Every young man ought to be drilled. Every householder ought, at least, to have a right to own a rifle, and should know how to make cartridges.
I’m a boxer. I’m a boxer. If you’re interested, just watch my boxing, not my life.
Boxing is my calling and so I have no fear of getting hurt.
Wrestling is different than MMA or boxing or really any other contact sport in that you can’t really draw along an opponent.
People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.
Boxing is a lonely sport.
We try to tell these guys that the end of a boxing career isn’t the end of their lives: it’s the beginning of a new one.
I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults… When you’re fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry.
Canada definitely has a strong program in women’s boxing, and we’re showing that women are capable, not just men.
That’s boxing – one punch can win a fight.
There’s ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
It’s one of the biggest disappointments of my boxing career, not going to the Olympics.
I will always wonder what might have been if I had faced Manny Pacquiao at my best. But there is no doubt in my mind that the Pacman will still go down as one of boxing’s all-time greats.
My father taught me, in boxing, that when you – particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time – you’re going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit.
I feel like, as boxers, we’re not like normal people. After a while doing this, you get that buzz. It can be wild and out of control. I have to try to control myself. That’s what boxing is about – control.
I am trying to be better than anybody who ever laced up a pair of boxing gloves, and I think that pretty much sums up everything.
Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It’s a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box… but in an actual physical fight against someone who’s just a wrestler, you’re going to get killed.
I’m the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.
I do think I retired too soon. I just felt at that particular time in 2002, after winning a fifth world title belt, why not be one of the smart ones in boxing and get out.
UFC is street fighting in a cage. Boxing is a controlled, skilled talent. There’s no comparison.
Boxing was just another one to keep me going as a child.
I think the MMA and boxing are different audiences. I think it’s a different intrigue. There’s no reason you can’t be a fan of both; why does it have to be one or the other?
I’m a satirist, so I’ve got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I’m not an assassin. If that ever happens, it’s only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.
I feel great about the boxing in South Florida.
Baseball, boxing, handball – sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
I want to fight in Madison Square Garden because it’s the mecca of boxing. This is my dream.
With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from those of the common people, made boxing unfashionable.
Boxing is the only thing I have ever understood – I certainly don’t understand women.
For me, boxing’s like checkers, and MMA’s like chess – there are so many ways to win the match. It’s not barbaric; it’s boxing, kickboxing, Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, cardio and it’s all reached such an amazing level. As fans learn more about the sport, they just fall in love with it.
I’ve always wanted to learn kick boxing.
British boxing fans are amazing, and the O2 is one of the best venues in the world.
I didn’t expect one day I become world champion in the United States. I’m very proud to be together with boxing legends. It’s a dream to be in with Muhammad Ali.
When I was starting out the announcers would name everyone from the boxing board at ringside and by the time they got to the fighters they were almost an afterthought.
Boxing does not favor boxers over 35 who rely on reflexes.
It’s a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.
I just love boxing. I’m in love with the sport.
Boxing’s not in my blood… it just grew on me.
His boxing style is one that I would like to test myself against. I’ve always been a fan of his, and I’ve always wanted to test myself against Roy Jones.
I had dreams in 2000 of being an Olympian for boxing. I never talk about it.
Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.
Politics is a dirty game. We have our rules in boxing. In politics, no rules. Especially a young democracy like Ukraine. It’s more like MMA.
