Boxing Quotes - Page 13

Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?

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.

Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

I liked that title. I didn't want to lose it to anybody, but if I had to lose it, I'm glad I lost it to you. You're a good fighter and gonna be a great champ.

I love to do Pilates, boxing and even just going on a run. I do cardio twice a week as it's important for people who want to eat lots like me! I do Pilates ones a week.

I had to start boxing because I missed working on something and learning and I guess there's a little more aggression in boxing. I couldn't really get that side of me out, but I used to be able to by hitting a volleyball. That's why I started boxing.

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.

Boxing is just show business with blood.

I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.

Michael seems to have lost his values temporarily. He just has to be worked with, disciplined and talked to and given some tender loving care and understanding.

I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank

Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit.

I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.

I'm a self motivated person, that's what got me to the point I'm at today. I don't take anybody lightly because this is what I do, this is my job. The day that I stop taking it seriously is the day I have to stop boxing. I would never put myself into a position where I go into the ring not prepared.

Boxing is your father's sport.

Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

I'm gonna make a ton of money on the rematch, but that decision was horrible.

You're talkin' legit here.