Quotes About Boxing

Jack Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion, so I took part of his name. I admired Rocky Marciano, so I took part of his name.

Boxing is a tough game. You have to be mentally and physically strong. You have to be able to take the knocks and keep going.

Boxing is a very dangerous sport. You have to respect your opponents and be prepared for anything.

I don't like to hurt people. I'm not that kind of person. But in the ring, it's a different story. You have to be ruthless. You have to go for the kill.

I always say that boxing is 90% mental and 10% physical. You have to be in the right frame of mind to be successful.

Boxing is not just about physical strength, it's about mental strength too. You have to be able to stay focused and keep your cool under pressure.

You have to be fearless in the ring. You can't show any weakness. You have to be confident in your abilities and believe that you can win.

Boxing is a sport. It's not a fight, it's a skill. It's an art. You don't just go in there and start swinging punches. You have to be smart, you have to know what you're doing.

In boxing, you have to be disciplined. You have to train hard, eat well, and get plenty of rest. If you don't do those things, you won't be successful.

And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully accomplished, in the teeth, too, of the most untoward and apparently hopeless impediments; which is a lesson by no means to be forgotten. Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.

I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.

I've became a coffee drinker since I gave up boxing. I also love to eat anything cooked by a Jamaican. Carbs like rice, yellow yam, Renta yam, sweet yam. Also salt fish fried with onions.

Tony Harrison is definitely not Demetrius Andrade. Yes, he's probably a prospect and doing good things but everybody sounds good, everybody's a prospect until you get in there with somebody that knows how to fight.

The ultimate goal for me is to be the world champion - it's all I've wanted to do since I was a kid - so when the money that comes with it is life-changing, yes, that's nice, but get The Ring magazine belt, being considered the world champion, is something money can't buy.

I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.

I'm somewhat of a masochist at heart. I like to sweat. I come from a very competitive sporting background - my dad was a world-champion surfer - so it's always been a part of my DNA. I do a lot of soft-sand running, hiking, yoga, and boxing, and I compete in triathlons.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

If I beat Canelo Alvarez at Madison Square Garden, I wake up the next day the king of New York and the new face of boxing.

Politics is a dirty game. We have our rules in boxing. In politics, no rules. Especially a young democracy like Ukraine. It's more like MMA.

In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the world like a hungry young lion.

My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye.

I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?

My life has been very much a roller coaster ride. Not just the boxing part, not just the acting part, just my childhood, what I was into at a young age and the things I was exposed to, it's just very abnormal.