Quotes About Boxing

What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher.

I always feel like the freshest boxer going into competitions.

I'm a competitor in anything I do, especially boxing.

I spent a lot of time in a boxing gym but I concentrate on everything, wrestling, the Jiu-Jitsu and everything else.

As far as the weight is concerned, I feel great whatever it is. I'm going to be in there and I'm going to bang. I feel I'm in great condition.

People are very confused and wrong because there is no comparison between me and Canelo.

I have seen the consequences of what can happen in boxing.

For me, boxing was a way of me exercising my frustration, anger, sense of injustice, but also a way of owning my space and taking up space. Which I think as a woman in the art world is essential for surviving. You have to become comfortable going like, 'OK, I'm going to take this wall, this wall is mine, I'm going to put my work on this wall.'

I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.

Betting by insiders has a corrosive effect. It breeds suspicion, adds to the appearance of corruption, invites more corruption, and, in a sport like boxing, puts lives at risk.

I am Jack Swagger. My background, it's there for the world to see, and you look at MMA today, you look at boxing today, you look at professional kickboxing today, you need that entertainment value. You want people to relate to you as a character, as a personality. Honestly, that's what they're going to remember.

Boxing is the sweet science. You hit and not get hit. There's no reward for you to hit me more than I hit you other than on the scorecards.

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

I say the sweet science is to understand not only how to fight coming forward, how to be a big puncher, but also understand, if you run into a guy who can take your punch for the first time, how to react.

When something in the sweet science doesn't look right, most likely it isn't.

I did javelin, swimming, long distance running. But the reason I did these other sports was because of boxing. I didn't want to get sidetracked.

I can box, I can bang, I can switch, I can punch, I'm not slow.

Liefde is altijd ergens anders, een watervlugge bokser met prachtig voetenwerk en oogverblindende schijnbewegingen, die nooit toeslaat en die niet te slaan is.

It is usually people who pride themselves on their lack of sexism who are the first to insinuate that I box , as one woman acquaintance said, "to get male attention." That would have to be the most painful and time-consuming method to do so ever invented.

Workers collected crude turpentine, the liquid resin of the longleaf pine, by "boxing": cutting a large, chevron-shaped drainage into a tree with a deep notch below it that collected the liquid, which was then scooped out and barreled.

Then she asked if they let girls on the boxing team and I said Mr. Barnes tried to get you on it, but you weren't interested. Then--get this--she starts asking if you've got a hate-on for certain people." Sam looked worried, almost alarmed, but when she saw me watching, she tried to hide it and said, "So what'd you tell her?" "That you're an equal opportunity hater.

Daniel heaved Moreno to his feet. The man swung at him, but Daniel ducked easily and returned a one-two punch that left Moreno reeling. "Island wrestling champ," I said. "Only third place in boxing, though, so you're getting off easy.

I could really use that dinner." He plucked the front of his sweat-soaked shirt. "I should have a shower and change. Guess I wasn't thinking this through too well." He glanced toward the house, and I knew he wasn't eager to go in. For the same reason he'd been out here boxing. "You'll dry," I said. "And if the smell doesn't fade, I'll just sit at another table. Now come on before I starve.

I know Haye's a good fighter as well and he beat Mormeck but Mormeck is not Enzo Maccarinelli and does not have the speed, stamina or punching power.