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Quotes About Boxing

I think Jose Aldo is tough, I respect him, but I want to test his chin.
~ Cody Garbrandt
I don't claim to be the best boxer in the world. What I claim to do is give 100% when I get in that ring.
~ Tony Bellew
I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience.
~ Josh Keaton
The entire existence of the NFL - and of football at any level, for all of that - rests on whether or not the game can keep fooling itself, and its paying fan base, that it is somehow superior to boxing and to the rest of our modern blood sports.
~ Charlie Pierce
GGG is a great fighter, but he hasn't got the ability that Kell has - Brook is the far superior boxer.
~ Naseem Hamed
It would be a dream come true to end Manny's career, just like I ended Erik Morales' career. It would be that same type of feeling. Pacquiao is a global superstar, and once I beat him, I'll be the new pay-per-view superstar.
~ Danny Garcia
Joe DeGuardia, I love that guy. He's not a superstar promoter yet, but he will be. He was a fighter himself; he's staying the course with these guys. He's developing some good fighters out there. I really applaud him whenever I get a chance to.
~ Gerry Cooney
There'll never be another Muhammad Ali. He was a superstar. And although he has gone, his legacy will live on for what he has done for sport and humanity.
~ Joe Calzaghe
I know for a fact if I were a white English fighter, maybe I would have been a superstar in Britain - and the world.
~ Amir Khan
I don't want to be the country's best-kept boxing secret. I want to cross over from being a boxer on the back pages to the front pages and become the big superstar I deserve to be.
~ Carl Froch
Canelo has experience and is a superstar. He's showed me a lot as a mentor. It's the biggest blessing that I can have.
~ Ryan Garcia
I want to be a superstar in the junior middleweight division.
~ Jermell Charlo
I'm superstitious about my hair. I don't like to cut it before big fights.
~ Shannon Briggs
A boxing gym is not supposed to look like a hotel or a condo. It is supposed to be rugged.
~ Danny Garcia
God's been pretty good to me. He made me duck all those punches that were supposed to land.
~ Jake LaMotta
Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don't have a problem.
~ Larry Holmes
Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.
~ Alice Dreger
I will surely watch 'Toofaan.'
~ Milkha Singh
But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.
~ Rod Taylor
Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
~ Canelo Alvarez
I wouldn't be surprised if I knocked Ricky Hatton out. It's something that people are going to read and think I'm ridiculous, but if you look beyond what you see with naked eye, every time he gets hit clean, he's hurt.
~ Paulie Malignaggi
I was surprised at how slow Froch was. We were able to beat him to the punch.
~ Andre Ward
Well, the surprising factor was that in general 'Creed' was like a real-life movie even though you know its boxing and fighting but thats part of real-life as well.
~ Florian Munteanu
He looked as if he'd got a lot of pleasure out of going ten rounds with your grandmother and making sure she went the whole distance.
~ Richard Brautigan