Boxing is about hunger.
Boxing has a problem – a big one. Think of it as a monster that’s hiding under the bed. Eventually, the monster is going to come out and take a big chunk out of the sport. Fighters, trainers, managers, promoters, even government regulators can legally bet on fights. They can also bet on fights they’re involved with.
I just stick to what I know, boxing.
They say ‘you’ve over trained, you’ve left it in the gym’ is the most common phrase used in boxing but my god it is the truest.
Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you’re taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it’s just the fact of science you’re going to have results.
UFC has unbelievable fans, and boxing has unbelievable fans.
When The Queen invited the Olympians to the Palace, I was first in line to speak to her. She said she watched the Games and how happy she was, how impressed she was with the boxing. She told me she’d watched my fight and enjoyed it. I didn’t realise the effect I’d had on the whole country.
I don’t care about no boxing legacy. I don’t care where they put me on the list of all-time greats – let them put me at the bottom.
All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you’ve got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.
I try to keep it in a very low impact – I have scoliosis, so exercises can be really hard on my back, whether it’s too much running, jumping or boxing. I’ll do those things once in a while, but I keep it mostly Pilates, resistance-band based, softer exercises that build strength from inside the muscle.
I miss boxing. I miss everybody and everything. I miss the attention.
When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn’t make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.
A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.
Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we’d probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.
As a child, I was into cricket and boxing in school.
A lot of my friends, when I was 14 or 15, they were all up and down, wanting to go out on a Friday night, and my dad had me working really late on Fridays and Saturday mornings and even on Sunday mornings. And when I’d finished all that, we used to spend the rest of the time talking about boxing.
I use the period between Christmas and New Year to potter about, think and completely change my mindset. In that easy no-man’s-land between Boxing Day and New Year, loins are girded and mettle readied. It is time, as we voyagers bid farewell to the old year, to fare forward.
There’s a lot I can offer boxing.
Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.
I love boxing, but there’s a business side. I don’t like a lot of people in the sport.
I’m really into boxing – I have a personal boxing trainer in New York.
I’ve been boxing since I was eight, and that’s a long time to take punches day after day.
I love the beach and rock climbing and boxing and nature, so I like to stay away from my phone as much as possible.
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you’ve always got a puncher’s chance.
Boxing has been my life, and it is my life. I’ve enjoyed every moment of it.
There’s nothing like the freedom of being in a roomful of strangers and trying to make them laugh… You either sink or swim. It’s like verbal boxing.
If boxing had a professional boxing association or something like that, I think it would be a better place.
Now Mayweather has retired, Alavrez is the biggest name in boxing, and I’m looking forward to pitting my wits against him.
My mum hates the fact that I fight. My sisters hate it, too, but they understand that boxing gave me a way out. It saved me. It made me someone. It made me the person I am today, mentally and physically.
My brothers first brought me to boxing. I dedicate the fights to them and my father and fight for my family.
It’s got difficult for me to walk down the street without people stopping me to ask for an autograph or to talk to me about boxing.
We’re prizefighters. That’s what we become. Boxing has one of the biggest purses in sport. And in the sporting field, we probably make the most money.
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 have a love for boxing.
Boxing is a noble sport.
Only time will tell whether the Klitschkos need me more than I need them. They won’t believe that. But it depends what they want out of boxing. If they want guaranteed easy victories, then they can do what they’ve always done, but if they want a tough challenge, you’d think they would want to beat down my door.
In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn’t have any fear. I thought, ‘This is easy. This is what I’ve been waiting for’. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.
As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.
Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it’s a dancing.
People understand boxing in the U.K. The fans love it.
As a general rule, Las Vegas sports books take boxing bets only on major fights.The same is true of most Internet gaming sites. Within that framework, not only does boxing allow participants to bet on their own bouts, it sometimes encourages them to do so.
Conservatives who decried Trump’s rise (and those who scoffed at his chances of winning a single primary were legion) are the same ‘purist’ boxing snobs who could never grasp the popularity – and populist legitimacy – of wrestling.
The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women’s boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women’s boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
No, I’ve never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I’d been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.
Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember – a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they’d have a boxing match every week; they’d bring guys in from outside to fight me.
For sure, the UFC and MMA became way bigger than boxing.
My goal in boxing is to be the best.
As much as I love to watch movies, nothing beats being ringside for a championship fight in boxing.
Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.
I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.
In boxing, if a fighter doesn’t leave the sport on time, something bad is likely to happen.
There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both.
I have a dream fight – boxing fight – and I am for sure gonna fight a boxing fight.
Boxing is full of chances and it’s easy throwing a shot, it’s about landing it at the precise time.
I’ve been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.
I’m not here to judge Mike Tyson. I’m not here to judge nobody. I’m not here to monitor no other fighters. I respect him for what he did in the sport of boxing. He was an entertainer.
The reality of growing up is we changed schools so many times, my brother was my best friend. We have a five-year age gap, and my brother inspired me. He started boxing, and I just want to show that I could do things better than him.
I box two to three times a week. I don’t like going to the gym because it’s boring. I really like boxing because you have to combine concentration and imagination. I feel like I’m actually learning something that’s useful.
If people recognize me from ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ they just give me that look that’s like, ‘I think I know you. I think I saw you boxing in 1912, but I’m not sure,’ because it was such a short-lived run.
I’m honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing – to be successful and make history.
