Quotes About Boxing

The only person I'd be interested in boxing would have to be one of the best of the best. It would have to be, like, Andre Ward.

Andre Ward got the chance to fight Sergey Kovalev twice. Triple G and Canelo are fighting again. People are getting paid to play king of the hill again.

I will beat Andre Ward. I will knock out Andre Ward. He's a pound-for-pound king, but I will beat him.

Arturo Gatti-Micky Ward. Joe Frazier-Muhammad Ali. You get these rivalries in boxing - not that often, so when you do get them, why do you want to sanitise it?

Andre Ward, he's one of my favorite fighters.

One of the guys I admire in this sport is Andre Ward... I kind of hang on to every word that Dre says. I really admire him and everything he's been through in this sport.

Looking back now, I realise that belonging to the family of a labourer actually helped to prepare my body for boxing. There were many times when my family didn't have enough food or warm clothing to go around. All this made me physically, as well as emotionally, tough.

It's the warm-up in the changing room when I switch on. I don't even think about the fight until then. Some fighters are bouncing about the walls, but I switch off. Then it's like someone flicks a switch in me.

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.

But my promoter Frank Warren knows what he is doing, and has been through this cycle many times with other fighters.

Those kinds of fights when a warrior meets a warrior is something that should definitely take place in boxing.

No sport is more geared to the warrior's code of honour, pride and respect. That's why I love boxing. It's mano a mano. One against one. It's driven by fear and your need to conquer it.

I am a fan of the 'Rocky' films, and 'Rocky 4' is my favourite. I also like 'The Warriors.'

I love boxing. I like to see the strategizing. Watching the warriors go to work. I like that struggle, going out there and fighting.

In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and '70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide.

I would be more wary of boxing a pretty boxer than I would one that looks like they have been bashed up a bit because the pretty boxer obviously doesn't get hit - so that means they must be quite good!

Bloody Mike Tyson'd have trouble with you.

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

The federal government, in its own way, had cut off his balls. It had symbolically lynched Jack Johnson.

I just smile. And they - my opponents don't like it when I smile at them. They think I'm playing or something. But - like I smile throughout the whole fight. Sometimes I'll be throwing combinations and I just smile and stick my tongue out at them.

I want to retire from boxing by the time I am 25 or 26 and be a legend by that age.

It was boxing, but I also feel it was my drive and ambition that kept me away from the stupidness, and my calculation.

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

I want Caleb Truax. He was calling me out when I was 12-0.