Top Boxing Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Boxing quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Athol Fugard
All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.
- Athol Fugard
Collection: Boxing
Image of Gene Tunney
The greatest fighter I ever saw
- Gene Tunney
Collection: Boxing
Image of Vijender Singh
I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing , but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.
- Vijender Singh
Collection: Boxing
Image of Manny Pacquiao
Boxing is not for killing each other.
- Manny Pacquiao
Collection: Boxing
Image of Harry Carpenter
This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.
- Harry Carpenter
Collection: Boxing
Image of Jim Watt
I'm like a bottle of milk with gloves.
- Jim Watt
Collection: Boxing
Image of Antonio Tarver
Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?
- Antonio Tarver
Collection: Boxing
Image of Antonio Tarver
Got any excuses tonight Roy?
- Antonio Tarver
Collection: Boxing
Image of Lennox Lewis
Mike Tyson fit the American ideal of a boxer. A fighter who jumps out of his corner and hits out fiercely. That’s what he’'ll be remembered for. But good boxing doesn’t work like that. Tyson never won on points. It was clear that he’'d come a cropper some day.
- Lennox Lewis
Collection: Boxing
Image of Joe Louis
Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten
- Joe Louis
Collection: Boxing
Image of Joe Louis
Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?
- Joe Louis
Collection: Boxing
Image of Joe Louis
Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.
- Joe Louis
Collection: Boxing
Image of Frank Bruno
Well, that's cricket Harry. These things happen in boxing
- Frank Bruno
Collection: Boxing
Image of Gerry Cooney
Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.
- Gerry Cooney
Collection: Boxing
Image of Barry Tompkins
And we have a new era in boxing!
- Barry Tompkins
Collection: Boxing
Image of Yasser Seirawan
The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.
- Yasser Seirawan
Collection: Boxing
Image of Floyd Patterson
Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.
- Floyd Patterson
Collection: Boxing
Image of Billy Conn
What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?
- Billy Conn
Collection: Boxing
Image of Michael Buffer
Let's get ready to rumble!
- Michael Buffer
Collection: Boxing
Image of Jake LaMotta
I was so good at boxing because I worked hard. I worked harder than anybody. When other boxers used to box in the gym, three or four rounds, I used to box 10-20 rounds.
- Jake LaMotta
Collection: Boxing
Image of Jake LaMotta
I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes
- Jake LaMotta
Collection: Boxing
Image of Jake LaMotta
On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!'
- Jake LaMotta
Collection: Boxing
Image of Bob Arum
I'm gonna make a ton of money on the rematch, but that decision was horrible.
- Bob Arum
Collection: Boxing
Image of Larry Holmes
All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps
- Larry Holmes
Collection: Boxing
Image of Chuck Wepner
So when do I meet the champ?
- Chuck Wepner
Collection: Boxing
Image of Angelo Dundee
It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.
- Angelo Dundee
Collection: Boxing
Image of Angelo Dundee
Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.
- Angelo Dundee
Collection: Boxing
Image of Angelo Dundee
When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.
- Angelo Dundee
Collection: Boxing
Image of Angelo Dundee
Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.
- Angelo Dundee
Collection: Boxing
Image of Angelo Dundee
Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.
- Angelo Dundee
Collection: Boxing
Image of Angelo Dundee
The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep
- Angelo Dundee
Collection: Boxing
Image of Angelo Dundee
Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him.
- Angelo Dundee
Collection: Boxing
Image of Angelo Dundee
He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him.
- Angelo Dundee
Collection: Boxing
Image of Angelo Dundee
I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.
- Angelo Dundee
Collection: Boxing
Image of Angelo Dundee
I never knew about a lot of the outside things
- Angelo Dundee
Collection: Boxing
Image of Angelo Dundee
You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem.
- Angelo Dundee
Collection: Boxing
Image of Angelo Dundee
You're talkin' legit here.
- Angelo Dundee
Collection: Boxing
Image of Howard Cosell
Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!
- Howard Cosell
Collection: Boxing
Image of Tony Galento
Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?
- Tony Galento
Collection: Boxing
Image of Nicky Wilshire
I can only see it going one way, that's my way. How it's actually going to go I can't really say.
- Nicky Wilshire
Collection: Boxing
Image of Hans Kmoch
Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted time daily to bicycling and shadow-boxing, followed by a cold douche and a brisk rub down?
- Hans Kmoch
Collection: Boxing
Image of Charlie Flynn
Sometimes you need to be awkward to beat awkwardness
- Charlie Flynn
Collection: Boxing
Image of Charlie Flynn
Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.
- Charlie Flynn
Collection: Boxing
Image of Max Kellerman
It was a sucker punch. But you know who gets hit by sucker punches? Suckers.
- Max Kellerman
Collection: Boxing
Image of Dai Dower
The side's all right, but my bloody knees are killing me!
- Dai Dower
Collection: Boxing
Image of Ehud Barak
Politics is not about schmoozing, it's about boxing. And you have to enter the arena; you have to come close enough that your face would ready the face of the other guy; and the price is that he can reach your face.
- Ehud Barak
Collection: Boxing
Image of Spencer Pratt
I've been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu all my life. Boxing, kickboxing. I'm definitely not a fighter, but I defend my honor.
- Spencer Pratt
Collection: Boxing
Image of Ricky Hatton
If there was such a thing as re-incarnation, Floyd would come back as himself
- Ricky Hatton
Collection: Boxing
Image of Tyrell Biggs
How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work
- Tyrell Biggs
Collection: Boxing