Boxing Quotes - page 7

I'm not really a gambler, but I'll bet on the Super Bowl or some boxing. Something I feel comfortable with. (Birdman)
I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because I look a certain way doesn't mean I'm weak. View quote
Brittany Snow
Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off. View quote
Cara Castronuova
I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting. View quote
David Bailey
I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college. View quote
Dean Norris
If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such. View quote
Dan Castellaneta
Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life. View quote
Don King
I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together. View quote
Don King
To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses. View quote
Dan Hill
I love boxing, and I try to mix it up as much as I can. Boxing makes you kind of tight, so it's really good to mix that with barre, pilates, or something that'll stretch you out and make you longer. I'm not the person that loves to be in the gym so much. I like to mix it up as much as possible, otherwise I'll get bored. View quote
Elsa Hosk
Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. (Georges Carpentier)
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. View quote
Gerald McRaney
You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing. View quote
Gerry Cooney
I love the whole world of boxing and the sense of community that exists there. View quote
Holt McCallany
I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right choice and things are really working out for me right now, but I won't pretend that there isn't a part of me that always secretly wanted to be a boxer. View quote
Holt McCallany
Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one. View quote
Irwin Winkler
With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts! View quote
Jerry O'Connell
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. View quote
Jill Scott
All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied. View quote
John Boyle O'Reilly
Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains. View quote
John Boyle O'Reilly
The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise. (John Boyle O'Reilly)
A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things. View quote
Jonathan Ames
I grew up in Westlake Villiage, a suburb of L.A. There was a guy there who was a fighter and was like, 'I'll teach you to box.' I started a little bit of boxing, then it crossed over into jiu-jitsu. I was into it for a little while, but then I started doing basketball, baseball, team sports. View quote
Jonathan Lipnicki
The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game. View quote
Jonathan Raymond
Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing. View quote
Juan Manuel Marquez