Quotes About Boxing

I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.

Boxing has parallels with stand-up, because you're on your own. If a boxer gets knocked out in the first round, it's humiliating.

David Tua was an elite and world class heavyweight, I believe David Tua would have knocked Joseph Parker out in a handful of rounds.

I'm ready for Joseph Parker. The question is, is he ready for me?

I'm not scared of Joseph Parker or any other fighter.

We want to try and get Joseph Parker, as long as he doesn't run like an Australian chicken.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.

Boxing is not that complicated. If two guys want to fight, it's not hard to make a fight. If the fight's not made, it's because one party doesn't want that fight, or maybe both parties don't want it.

In terms of PPV, you've got to have the right dancing partner.

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

you should never bet money on a boxer who crosses himself before a fight, because any fighter relying on the grace of god is a dead duck.

After making my notes in the afternoon, I usually visit the fighters in their dressing rooms before they go out. I check what colour trunks they'll be wearing and sometimes the pronunciation of their names, particularly if they're from eastern Europe or Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia. I'll make sure I write those out phonetically.

Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.

I have lived in Ireland, visited all my life, and when I fight, I represent Ireland.

Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

The right shoulder is vital, being the one with which the southpaw employs his fast, and very effective, jab, which remains the cornerstone of his work.

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

Boxers don't tend to come from Cambridge or Oxford. Sometimes the things we say don't come out well. We are not known for our vocabulary.

There are major fights for me in the middleweight division. Those are the fights I want and I've been very vocal about it.

I only box. It's the only thing that keeps me sane. I can't just go to the gym and run. I'd rather die. I played volleyball and rode horses my entire life, so just, like, moving to a city and having to go the gym was just, like, so weird for me.

I've had a great career; they've put me in the Hall of Fame, and the WBC voted me the best super-middleweight with Joe Calzaghe, yet all I wanted was Southern Area champion. Maybe a shot at the British title.

I always wanted to make football a career. My senior year didn't go where I needed it to go, though, and it made the decision to turn professional in boxing easier.

Carl Froch never really does too well away from home and he is very settled and comfortable in Nottingham.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.