Boxing Quotes - page 11

They don't show Olympic boxing on TV in prime time. They haven't done that since 1988. In 1992, they showed one: Oscar De La Hoya. In 1996, they didn't show it. In 2000, they didn't show it. In 2004, they didn't show it. In 2008, they did not even mention boxing at all. You would think the United States didn't have a boxing team in 2008. (Evander Holyfield)

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

Jack Dempsey

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

Floyd Mayweather

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

Floyd Mayweather

Boxing is what pays my bills.

Floyd Mayweather

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

Floyd Mayweather

I always put my boxing first.

Floyd Mayweather

I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

Floyd Mayweather

There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

Floyd Mayweather

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

Floyd Mayweather

I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but I was kind of a momma's boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. (Sugar Ray Leonard)

You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss boxing, I miss the camaraderie.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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.

J. R. Moehringer

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

Muhammad Ali

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Muhammad Ali

People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.

Muhammad Ali

I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue with boxing exhibitions.

Larry Holmes

The heavyweight boxer Evander Holyfield, banned from boxing because of a heart condition, went to a Benny Hinn crusade in Philadelphia, had Hinn lay hands on him, and gave Hinn a check for $265,000 after he was told he was healed. In fact, he passed his next examination by the boxing commission, but later his doctors said he never had a heart condition in the first place – he had been misdiagnosed.

Benny Hinn

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

Al Sharpton

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other. (Sylvester Stallone)

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.

Matt Taibbi

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

Idi Amin

In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.

Manny Pacquiao

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

Manny Pacquiao

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