Quotes About Boxing

Before 'Cinderella Man,' I didn't box. But I boxed. It's possible. You go and you work hard at things.

I box every day. I have a gym built wherever I go, so I still got my gym. Every day, I try to get in there and work out the mitts.

I work out at Will Space four times a week. It's a private training gym. It's owned by my trainer, Will Torres. I just came from there, actually. I turned Mark Consuelos onto Will, so he goes there too. Today we boxed. It's every kind of cross-training you can do.

'Rocky' is a movie that just happens to be about boxing. It's really about characters and story lines and relationships and all those things, and the backdrop is boxing. You can go back and watch the final fight in 'Rocky' a thousand times. If you dig that movie, if you like the characters, you'll watch the whole movie over and over.

It's sad to see boxers sometimes when they've come from these massive highs with thousands of people screaming for them. They're the best at what they do - then, that's it: stopped, finished.

There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.

I'm going to show everyone why Jermell Charlo is a threat to the whole 154-pound division.

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

I've met kids right out of the Olympics who tell me they can't wait to be introduced by me. After a fight, fighters say, 'Being introduced by you, what a thrill.' That's probably the best compliment I can get.

I am thrilled to participate in the World Boxing Super Series, the Champions League of boxing.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

I could never say that fear really gets to me. I'm not one of those fighters like Nigel Benn who says, 'I thrive on fear.' I walk through fear.

You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.

Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.

I spar with Nick and Nate Diaz... those boys know what they're doing; they can throw their hands.

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

Everyone has 4 ounce gloves on, and they're big boys, and they can throw hard.

I want to avoid every punch you throw at me, but I'm not scared to get hit. But I'm not just going to let everybody hit me.

Sometimes people say, 'You've got to go out there and grit your teeth and just throw.' That's never been my style, but I think I need to be a little bit more aggressive instead of counterpunching.

I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.

Boxing is full of chances and it's easy throwing a shot, it's about landing it at the precise time.

We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.

If you start throwing eight or nine shots, you're going to get caught - bang - and the fight could be over.

I love watching old fights. It's hard to watch the black-and-white footage, although I know about Randolph Turpin and people like that, but I'm talking about Hearns, Haggler, Leonard, those guys. Sugar Ray Leonard, he was way before his time, throwing bolos and all that, those big wind-up bolo shots.