Boxing Quotes - Page 18

I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a great fighter, came to such an ignominious end.

When Don King's fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses.

Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.

When it comes to boxing I find a way to clear my mind. When it comes to boxing you have to fight. Clear your mind and fight. You can't really think of outside things when you're in the ring.

At noon I get to the gym to do my boxing workout. Three hours there. Rest. Once in a while I get a massage, because I need it once in while.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

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.

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

I'm like a bottle of milk with gloves.

For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time.

I have great skills. I can fight anybody, anywhere, anytime. I have done it in the past. I am on a different level than everyone else in the game of boxing. Nobody taught me how to fight. I was born a fighter. Everybody else was taught. That is the difference. I would rather show them than talk about it.

I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me.

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.

Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.'

Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.

There is boxing and then there is me. The rest are just falling in line behind me or are trying to get in line to fight me. And that includes Manny Pacquiao too.

Boxing won’t retire me, I will retire from boxing.