Boxing Quotes - Page 24

• Boxing's all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds.

  Frank Bruno

  Funny, Jobs, Stupid

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• I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.

  Mike Tyson

  Crazy, Killing

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• He was screaming like my wife.

  Mike Tyson

  Crazy, Wife, My Wife

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• I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

  George Foreman

  Graduation, School, Sleep

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• Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

  Dan Duva

  Funny, Years, Dumb

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• I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

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• Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

  Angelo Donghia

  Mother, Screw Ups, Assumption

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• You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Running, Inspirational Sports, Winning

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• A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.

  Evander Holyfield

  Motivational, Sports, Champion

  FaceBook post by Evander Holyfield from May 16, 2016

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• Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

  Joe Louis

  Motivational, Sports, Guy

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• Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

  Joe Louis

  Funny, Heaven, Religion

  1965 In Sports Illustrated,'Scorecard',19 Jul.

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• I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Blessed, People

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• There are so many things I've done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It's going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.

  Bernard Hopkins

  People, Work Out, Done

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• This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Fighting, Work Out, Deeper

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• A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Body, Fighter

  Twitter post from Jun 17, 2011

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• Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Thinking, Cassius

  Twitter post from May 30, 2011

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• Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

  Howard Cosell

  "Not the Greatest" by Robert Lipsyte, www.slate.com. November 9, 2011.

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• That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Men, Heavyweights

  "Sugar Ray Robinson tribute part 2", www.youtube.com. July 26, 2006.

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• You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Champion, Heavyweights, Black

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• I liked that title. I didn't want to lose it to anybody, but if I had to lose it, I'm glad I lost it to you. You're a good fighter and gonna be a great champ.

  Jersey Joe Walcott

  Titles, Want, Fighter

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• Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.

  Floyd Patterson

  Ku Klux Klan, People, Clay

  "Let's not Pretend Ali was Gandhi". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 04, 2002.

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• You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.

  Muhammad Ali

  Baby, Kids, Tonight

  Muhammad Ali, Richard Durham (2015). “The Greatest: My Own Story”, p.364, Graymalkin Media

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• You can never underestimate the prince, I'm always there. The prince will never die. I ain't bragging, but I ain't seen nobody, and I mean nobody, come to the ring in such style, with such flair, charisma, I'm talking about bringing it all, a full package. I mean who would you know that could come out in a flying carpet. Come out like a concert, dancing, with like, oozing confidence, and then get in and take somebody out. Come on, do you know anybody in the history of the sport, that did what Prince Naseem did. And I ain't trying to brag, but I was bloody good at it.

  Naseem Hamed

  Sports, Mean, Talking

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• Come December 8th his ass gone be hurt. He aint fought 43 Floyd Mayweathers.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Hurt, Gone, Floyd Mayweather

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• I'm going to give Vargas the chance to cash his last paycheck. I would like to say publicly that Fatty Vargas has always feared me. I conceded to take this fight at 162 pounds because fatty couldn't lose any more weight. I will do Vargas a favor by retiring him in this fight so his family doesn't have to suffer every time he steps in the ring. I'm going to do his wife a favor and not let her cry anymore.

  Ricardo Mayorga

  Fighting, Giving, Wife

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