Boxing Quotes - Page 14

The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

I can't watch a [Floyd] Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting. I used to watch boxing in the [Michael] Tyson era when it was exciting. Now it's all bob and weave, a punch here and there. It is not entertaining.

Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?

In a boxing match, the fighters absorb some vicious blows because they’re ready for them. And usually, the knockout punch is the one they didn’t see coming.

Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

I think I might've turned 39, look like I turned 29, feel like I turned about 19.

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.

I wanted to be prepared and be strong for any unexpected challenges, so from the beginning I was doing kick-boxing. I was wearing a sauna suit everyday, I was wearing sea goggles, I was wearing gloves. I was trying to put myself through the worst condition ever and most of the training sessions I was puking up.

If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks

Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him

I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages