Quotes About Boxing

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions.

You should want to fight the biggest fights you can and so you could maximize your stature in the sport, on the front pages of the newspapers, and your pocket book.

Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

There's no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes.

If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life... I try to live my life the same way.

The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

Boxing day will never be the same now that Muhammed Ali is gone.

I like the freedom boxing has provided me, and I like to have people who I can trust around me. There's no need to make it complex when it's no longer simple.

I didn't really watch any fighters because we didn't have a TV. Of course, I knew about Carlos Monzon because he is such a huge icon in my province and in my state, but I can honestly say I don't get any instincts from other fighters.

I'd love to get that Mayweather fight. Not even for the money, just for the fact of proving us UFC fighters got what it takes to get in that ring.

There are various psychological advantages you can take into boxing match. One is getting your opponent to fight with emotion and anger because he hates you.

There's a lot psychologically going on in boxing... I think I relate to some of it. I have a respect for it. It's like performing, but it's also this crazy, self-destructive thing.

The psychology of the Klitschkos is to be nice to you before the fight and then destroy you in the ring. With them it's just business.