Quotes About Boxing

I feel comfortable at both weights. I feel I could fight at 130 or 135.

I listen to Frank Sinatra before my fight a lot, and I also listen to Orisha music, so both of those, I need, it's weird. It's a weird combination.

We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of Floyd Mayweather, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao. We'll overstay our welcome.

People ask me about Orlando Salido. My answer is that I fight for Top Rank and will take on who they schedule for me. But I would like to welcome Salido to Lomachenko University in the ring some day.

Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.

They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with.

Every time a fighter steps into the ring, he's borrowing against his future well-being.

As well-intentioned as it might be, the Ali Act suffers from glaring flaws.

Magny is a tough test. Magny is well-rounded, has great endurance. He's got great boxing and great reach, but he doesn't have great angles. I have better movement than him and I feel that's definitely an advantage.

Joe Louis was one of my closest friends.... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside.

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

Al is loyal, a loyal guy. He has treated me extremely well and he likes that I have been loyal to him as well. He runs things but he has treated me extremely well. I speak to Al Haymon whenever I want. He is a mysterious guy but he is the main man. He is the most powerful man in boxing.

I know there are certain powers who would rather have the champions be Eastern European because there's more money in it.

Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

There's no praise for scoring a fight right, just criticism for one you get wrong.

My mother asks me what round I'd like to win in, and she prays for that.

I prayed before fights. Especially just before I got in to the ring. But I'd also have my iPod on, Prodigy and Linkin Park ripping through my ears.

When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.

Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abrasive, magnetic daring and infectious self-love outside the ring galvanized the world and distracted many from his sniper's precision. He was a heavyweight with the fluttering gracefulness of a middleweight.

My preference is not to fight a Mexican.

Boxing is a lot of preparation and then improvising, so there are parallels to being an actor.

I felt good in all my fights. It's all in the preparation. I prepare myself for all of them. And I felt good in all my fights.

I already know what boxers do; I've been in it all my life. I know what they do, and I know how they prepare.

I didn't mentally prepare as well for Ngoudjo as I should have. I was a little lax in the fight.