Quotes About Boxing

When I was in juniors, I was fighting twice a year and going nine months without fighting.

I boxed for the British title in my ninth fight.

No sport - maybe no business - is more entrepreneurial than boxing.

I've got no desire to fight Dereck Chisora inside the ring or outside the ring.

I will always wonder what might have been if I had faced Manny Pacquiao at my best. But there is no doubt in my mind that the Pacman will still go down as one of boxing's all-time greats.

Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.

No doubt boxing's brutal beauty lies in the eye of the rooting beholder.

No doubt Mayweather is the greatest defensive fighter ever.

Boxing is my calling and so I have no fear of getting hurt.

Without boxing, there ain't no life. For me, at least.

When a molecule of vitamin C encounters a free radical, it becomes oxidised and thereby renders the free radical innocuous. The oxidised vitamin C then gets restored to its non-oxidised state by an enzyme called vitamin C reductase. It is like a boxer who goes into the ring, takes a hit to his jaw, goes to his corner to recover, and then does it all over again.

Before the 1975 fight in Manila, Ali bragged about attending a Ku Klux Klan meeting; he met with the KKK's leadership because they agreed on the issue of interracial marriage (both sides saw it as an atrocity). The

He was all of them in one black body that night in the ring, and all of them when the shite men took him out back to those two iron rings.

My first fight made me cockeyed," he said, "and my farewell fight set my eyes right again, so trust me when I say this sport will break you down to make you better, and that's a fact.

He was all of them in one black body that night in the ring, and he was all of them when the white men took him out back to those two iron rings.

When the bets were in Dusty would nod his head and I'd knock the guy out. I don't know if you've ever knocked anybody out, but the best place to hit them is where the jaw meets the ear. If you catch them right they fall forward. They were always grabbing at my shirt on the way down and ripping it, so I had a deal with Nixon that I got a new white shirt every night as part of my pay.

You see, another thing I didn't know is that the kangaroo defends itself with its tail. It has an eight-foot tail that comes whipping up behind you when you knock the kangaroo down. And the harder I hit him, the harder and faster his tail came up behind me. I never saw that tail come whipping up behind me, and I never paid attention to the boxing glove on the tail. He had an eight-foot reach I didn't know about. Actually,

Between the second and third rounds I asked my buddies what the hell was going on. "Who's hitting me on the head?" They told me it's the referee, that he doesn't like Irishmen. I walked over and told the referee if he hits me on the back of the head one more time I'm going to knock him out. He said, "Get back in there and fight, rookie." I

came out now with one eye on the kangaroo and one eye on the referee. I'm really steaming mad now, and I creamed that kangaroo. His tail hit me so hard my head ached for three days. I jumped off at the referee and decked him. The referee's people jumped in the ring after me, and my pals jumped in after them. The cops had a hell of a time in that ring sorting things out. I

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked in poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.

Secondly, the Philanthropists had not the good temper of the Pugilists, and used worse language.

The man walked from his shoulders, anticipating life's next blow, the way ageing boxers did.

I hit people for a living, son.

The Latino people in the U.S. and the Mexicans in Mexico need a UFC champion. We have a rich tradition in boxing, and to not have a Mexican heavyweight champion is unheard of. We need it. I'm glad I'm able to be in a position to give them that champion they so desperately want.