Boxing Quotes

I like boxing.

Boxing is show-business with blood.

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.

I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.

I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

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

I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.

I do actually use a boxing trainer when I train for stand-up.

I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.

With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.

For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.

But boxing was my profession. I had to go back the second time because I was broke and I couldn't just go and get a college degree and earn it. I had too many bills, too many families.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

Boxing is just show business with blood.

James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.

I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

In boxing, everybody has their favorites.

I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

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.

I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.

I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

Boxing is always serious.

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

Boxing is what pays my bills.

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

I always put my boxing first.

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

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

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.

When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

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.

Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.

You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

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.

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.