Quotes About Perseverance

Get a boxer and get him wrestling for a minute or two - the arms get so heavy, filled with blood, they can't even hold them up any more, they can't box.

When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem.

For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think boxing is very dramatic.

I interviewed around 20 women boxers and all of them told me they learnt boxing to get a job. At one point, I asked one boxer if she had the passion for sports. She told me 'put some food in my belly and I'll talk about passion.'

People who have never boxed before, never worked hard in boxing, and they are starting to come in and people forget about the real boxers.

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

Without boxing, I can't live. I love boxing.

I've been boxing for a while now, and I probably could fight a little bit if I wanted to.

I always put my boxing first.

I did boxing for three years, and that was very nice. It's a hard but great, great sport. I really love the training aspect of it.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

I want to shock the world, and I'm going to do that through boxing.

Boxing is a really difficult sport! So I don't want to tell you I wouldn't try it, but I guess everybody that does know about it, my friends, they tell me how difficult it is, and I'm like, 'Eh.'

Boxing is kind of like football in that you test each other's desire to be there.

The main thing I got wrong in boxing was that I could do all the right things, but I didn't believe I could do it, and that's a big chink in your armor.

I've been boxing my whole life.

It's hard to believe I was just seven when I started boxing but I've put everything of myself into it.

Boxing has been everything for me as long as I can remember.

In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.

Boxing will always be in my life.

I love boxing and keep doing it because I love it.

I'm not going to be boxing forever, but I've put no time-cap on it, really.

Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.

Boxing was just another one to keep me going as a child.