Boxing Quotes - Page 28

• If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

  A. J. Liebling

  Girl, Crazy, Drunk

  7 Copy quote

• I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Pages, Holy

  8 Copy quote

• I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly

  Don King

  Cease

  38 Copy quote

• If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he
  hopped.

  Don King

  Funny, Wings, Bumps

  "The Daily Show" with Stephen Colbert, www.imdb.com.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let's get ready to rumble!

  Michael Buffer

  Rumble, Ready

  Quoted in Newsday, 4 Feb. 1989

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less.

  Ray Mancini

  Funny, Care, Retired

  6 Copy quote

• My business is hurting people.

  Sugar Ray Robinson

  Funny, Hurt, Business

  20 Copy quote

• I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid?

  Mike Tyson

  Sacrifice, Getting Laid, Mike

  7 Copy quote

• The part that sickens me about boxing is guys fight their whole careers and they have nothing to show for it. That's not going to be my testimony. When it's time to get out of the game, I want to be able to walk away. I'm not going to jeopardize my health. I will have no problems walking away.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighting, Walking Away

  "MISSION TO BE BEST / Andre Ward, 8-0, gets ready for his first 8-round fight" by John Crumpacker, www.sfgate.com. April 25, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.

  Norman Mailer

  Fighting, Artist, Discipline

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Character, Practice, Actors

  "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Mean, Differences

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.21, Tuttle Publishing

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Boxing’s an art, it’s a science, and you don’t go out to knock people out. If they happen to get knocked out, they happen to run into one of these bricks by mistake [looks at his fists], that’s their fault.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Running, Art, Motivation

  13 Copy quote

• Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.

  Don King

  Struggle, Reality, Errors

  4 Copy quote

• Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.

  Mike Tyson

  Tears, Way, Fans

  7 Copy quote

• These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Book

  "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter.

  Mike Tyson

  Mets, Palin

  4 Copy quote

• Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!

  Mike Tyson

  Way, Destroyed

  11 Copy quote

• I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

  Mike Tyson

  Black, Knows, Hard

  4 Copy quote

• I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.

  Lily Aldridge

  Thinking, Long, Ballet

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.

  Mike Tyson

  Crazy, Boxers, Recluse

  9 Copy quote

• Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together as wings go with air, roots with earth, and the phoenix with incendiary sun. And innocence belongs to us as it did to ancient Greek athletes, who never wore clothes for their footraces or boxing matches but rather oiled themselves until their nude bodies glistened in the sunlight.

  Janet Lembke

  Children, Athlete, Thinking

  11 Copy quote

• I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.

  Muhammad Ali

  Running, Pay, Hurricanes

  5 Copy quote

• He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Sports, Heart, Stronger

  Forbes, 2007.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.

  Jack Johnson

  Sports, Appreciation, Men

  Jack Johnson (1969). “Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography”

  29 Copy quote

  Show source