Boxing Quotes - Page 2

• I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, World, Pilots

  Twitter post from Nov 25, 2009

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• It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2009

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• All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps

  Larry Holmes

  Pimp, Fighter, Promoters

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• I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

  Muhammad Ali

  Easy, Dies, Loses

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• I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set - and they're both working.

  Willie Pep

  Wife, Tvs, Made

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• This fight is more about what Roy Jones lost than what I took

  Antonio Tarver

  Fighting, Lost, Roy Jones

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• At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

  Muhammad Ali

  Nice, Home, Humble

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2012

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• It's not bragging if you can back it up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Fighting, Greatness

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2011

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• I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

  Muhammad Ali

  Long, People, Black

  "Essay: 'The Greatest' Losses: What Prince and Muhammad Ali Shared" by Chandra Thomas Whitfield, www.nbcnews.com. June 8, 2016.

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• He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

  Eddie Shaw

  Sports, Art, Poetic

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• When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.

  Don King

  Lying, Confusing, Secret

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• You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the s*** knocked out of me

  Willie Pastrano

  Funny, Garden, Squares

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• If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse

  Bob Arum

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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• Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything.

  Michael Moorer

  Talking, Together, Able

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strength, Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2014

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• Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Men, White Man

  Attributed in "Chambers Sporting Quotations‎" by Simon James, (p. 27), 1990.

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• Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.

  Alexis Arguello

  Sports, Air, People

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• There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

  Marvin Hagler

  Sports, Media, Order

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• And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.

  Alicia Keys

  Fun, Giving, Kicks

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• I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Greatness, Needs

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2015

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• The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.

  Jake LaMotta

  Funny, Fighting, Comedian

  "Jake LaMotta - a life in pictures" by Daffydd Bynon, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2017.

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• I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2011

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• I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.

  Rocky Marciano

  Motivational, Strength, Fighting

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• If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Girl, Sports, Wrestling

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• When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

  John Barrymore

  Venus De Milo, Missing, Gloves

  "The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists". Book by Bert Randolph Sugar and Teddy Atlas, January 11, 2011.

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