Quotes About Boxing

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

I'm not in this sport to see how hard I can get hit or to see how many big punches I can take. I am in this game to fight as long as I can. I am trying to dish a lot of punishment.

You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

Boxing is your father's sport.

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful.

In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.

I'm going to say hello to two friends who I've shut out of my life for the past 10 weeks while I trained the hardest I've ever done for a fight. So welcome back Mr Guinness and Mr Dom Perignon.

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.

Yo le quería decir que el azar se parece al deseo que un beso es sólo un asalto y la cama es un ring de boxeo, que las caricias que mojan la piel y la sangre amotinan se marchitan cuando las toca la sucia rutina.