Quotes About Boxing

Friendship is an intercourse of world. Mike Tyson became a friend of "Cus" D'Amato, and it took him from fighting on the street and going to prison to fighting in a ring for money.

Every fight is do or die for me. I've come too far to start over. I'm on a destiny trip right now. I'm racing towards that heavyweight world championship.

Everyone else who has fought the Klitschko brothers has been scared.

I like to stay on my feet and exchange.

I think I needed boxing as an excuse, to be busy, 'cause if I wasn't busy I was getting into trouble.

The goal is just to get better and better and expand in different weight divisions and continue to be successful.

Just leave me alone at 154. I'm the man.

So I plan to become one of the few to beat Manny Pacquiao and also become one of the legends.

When I finished boxing, all that was available was commentating. But that's not me. I've got too much artistic licence to get out.

I'm not taking him lightly at all. I mean, Heiland, he's a good fighter. He's strong. He comes to fight every time.

I think I carry the power well at lightweight.

I'm gonna challenge Camacho, Rosario or anyone else who has the lightweight title.

There is an age limit of 35 on amateur boxing. They should consider putting an age limit on professional boxing.

I don't see myself being in the sport a very long period of time, so I want to fight as much as possible.

I can sell a fight, make no mistake.

I came from nothing and now I'm headlining at MSG. It's a dream come true, but it's a job, and the work will be done in the gym in Manchester.

Every bar has some affinity for boxing, because drinkers and boxers sit on stools and feel woozy and measure time in rounds.

Honey, I just forgot to duck.

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

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

[Wladimir] Klitschko has got the experience, so if Tyson [Fury] waits on him, Klitschko will out-box him. But if he uses his speed and reach it will be a great chance for him to win.

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.