Quotes About Boxing

I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.

I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain.

Whether Pacquiao loses in the first round, whether he knocks out Mayweather in the first round, it's still going to be the biggest fight in history.

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 read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

He said it's an honor to fight me, well I say that it's an honor to fight him as well.

Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?

The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.

My first fight was a little weasel from American called Andre Dirrell. I say that because he runs and holds, and I hope Abraham bangs him out.

I hope that not one of them ever wanna even think about boxing.

There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.

Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves.

I'm not courageous. In fact, when I shadow box I wear boxing gloves that are outfitted with flashlights.

See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.

The life of a boxing athlete is short, so I don't have time to waste or time to take tune-up fights or whatever.

At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.

I don't watch TV dramas. I watch ESPN, HBO boxing, National Geographic Channel and I kind of like to get some DVDs, movies that I haven't seen and I just pop them in.

I won't watch that Amir fight from now until I fight Alvarez. I'm not a blown up 147 or a Miguel Cotto. I'm a big 154 lb., and I'm coming of age and coming to win.