Boxing Quotes - Page 5

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I'm really lost, but I'm trying to find myself. I'm really a sad, pathetic case. My whole life has been a waste. I've been a failure. I just want to escape.

Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep

We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last.

You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.

There's one thing I remember about Muhammad Ali. He said "I don't like my condition, but if this is what the Good Lord has planned for me to deal with, I'm happy with that." You have to understand, that comes from my idol, one of the guys that got me started in boxing.

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.

Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.

Honey, I just forgot to duck.

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

I cant believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to.

Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.