Quotes About Boxing

The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.

I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I'm so great I don't have a mark on my face. I shook up the world.

Rocky doesn't act nothing like me. Apollo Creed, the way he dances, the way he jabs, the way he talks.... That's me.

While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in history / Now his heart can express him well / Joe Frazier was a silent warrior / whom Ali silently admired / One could not rise without the other

If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!

Now I'm not sayin' just to be funny, but I'm fightin' Ernie because he needs the money.

Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don't really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn't easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.

Clay comes out to meet Liston and Liston starts to retreat -- if Liston goes back an inch farther he'll end up in a ringside seat.

A thriller in Manila.

Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

I am the greatest.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer

Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Everyone loves a good boxing story, especially God

At the bridge the wind hits both of them like a kind of lady boxer.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

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