Boxing Quotes - page 5

Boxing is my life, but my life is not only boxing. (Vitali Klitschko)
Of all the fighters today, I have to say that Mayweather reminds me most of me," Leonard told Irish boxing writer Brian Doogan in describing the incident. "The kid has every gift and physical attribute, but if he continues to be the kind of person he is, he'll never be one of us. He'll never make it. View quote
Sugar Ray Leonard
I know exactly what it takes to beat this man, but people say, 'Well, Ray, two years of inactivity, you'll be rusty.' No, no. He will eliminate the rust because he is what I want and I am what he wants. And boxing needs that kind of fight. View quote
Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive. View quote
Sugar Ray Leonard
I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me. View quote
Sugar Ray Leonard
I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out. View quote
Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume. View quote
Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct. View quote
Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. View quote
Roger Kahn
Today I'm doing boxing in the morning, tonight I'll do my sprints. Tomorrow it's jiu-jitsu in the morning, Olympic wrestling in the evening, and Friday it's Muay Thai and then techniques or swimming in the evening, something like that. Every day I've got a routine that enables me to diversify my training. In this sport the most important thing is to be as complete a fighter as possible. View quote
Georges St. Pierre
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won. (Muhammad Ali)
My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons. View quote
Gene Tunney
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. View quote
Gene Tunney
Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. View quote
Gene Tunney
Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly. View quote
Gene Tunney
Greb gave me a terrible whipping. My jaw was swollen from the right temple down the cheek, along the chin and part way up the other side. The referee, the ring itself, was full of my blood. If boxing was afflicted with the commission doctors that we have now, the first fight probably would have been stopped and no one would have heard of me today. View quote
Gene Tunney
People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out. View quote
Morgan Freeman
To the greatest fans and the greatest sport in the world, thank you! Thank you for all the wonderful memories. This is the hardest decision I've ever made, but I'm at peace with it. Chase your dreams, work hard, and watch what happens. Good bye boxing. View quote
Manny Pacquiao
Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance. View quote
Manny Pacquiao
Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people. View quote
Manny Pacquiao
I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi. (Hugh Laurie)
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. View quote
Frank Bruno
I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do. View quote
Steven Yeun
As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it. View quote
Budd Schulberg
I boxed in the amateurs before getting into submission fighting and got hooked. Actually, I owned three boxing gyms in Vegas. I trained and managed fighters and had a sports management company. One day I met Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell, who I started representing, and I got into this huge contract negotiation with Bob Meyerwitz, the former owner of Tito Ortiz's contract. Through that, Bob and I developed a mutual respect for one another. View quote
Dana White