Boxing Quotes

Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

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

When you get hit that's when you've got to be calm. A professional fighter has to learn how to hit and not get hit, and at the same time be exciting. That's what professional boxing is about. You've got to be clever, you've got to be smart, and not get hit, and when you're able to do this, you're a fighter.

Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

If you can hit your opponent with two punches, you don't hit him with one. Get off with some bad intentions in there. Believe in yourself. A guy can feel it if you don't believe in yourself. Set your mind to make yourself do it.

People think that boxing is all about how hard you can hit your opponent. It's not. Boxing is about how hard a hit you can take and keep going.

Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff.

The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?

I have to believe that when things are bad I can change them.

I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.

Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

It hurt to even bump into him.

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.

I never teach until I've spoken to the fighter. I have to first determine his emotional state, get his background, to find out what I have to do, how many layers I have to keep peeling off so that I get to the core of the person so that he can recognize, as well as I, what is there.