Boxing Quotes - Page 31

• If you go to Madison Square Garden, you better have your A game ready, because here goes the thing, they love boxing. They either like you, or they don't like you. They're either cheering for you, or they're cheering for you to die...They want you to kill, or be killed.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Cheer, Motivation, Garden

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• I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me.

  James Toney

  Motivation, Old School, Fighter

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• After I knock out Randy Couture, I'll fight for the heavyweight title, the real heavyweight boxing title in October or November, come back and fight in the UFC in January or February. It doesn't matter, I'm a two sport athlete. The oldest man to ever do that.

  James Toney

  Sports, Motivation, Real

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• Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.

  Adrien Broner

  Sports, Motivation, Years

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• I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Eras, Faces

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• The NBA has a voice that's why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that's why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that's individually represented the individual people - Managers, Promoters and Boxers.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Sports, Motivation, Nba

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• The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Fighting, Mma

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• I like Sergio Martinez. I think he's strong, he's gritty, he's got plenty of heart, he's not the fanciest guy you might have seen in boxing but he has the goods to be around a long time in the Middleweight division.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Strong, Motivation, Heart

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• Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Running, Motivation, Philadelphia

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• It's only boxing, don't worry about it. Let's get it on!

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Worry, Fighter

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• I do believe he’s the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he’s one of the greatest men I’ve ever met.

  George Foreman

  Believe, Men, Giving

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• All boxing experts told Helenius is the next world champion! Chisora beat him.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Champion, Experts

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• Boxing's given me the chance to travel around the world and open the door and the world is much brighter.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Doors, World

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• There is one thing that I feel I still have to do and that is gain revenge over Lennox Lewis. If Lewis came back I would find the motivation to return to boxing and beat him.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Revenge, Gains

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• In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.

  Andre Ward

  Giving Up, Motivation, School

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• I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Thinking, Challenges

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• The only thing on my mind is getting into that ring and destroying a boxing myth, someone who has reached a level of infamy through doing a number of stupid things.

  David Haye

  Motivation, Stupid, Numbers

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• The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Country, Fighting, Poverty

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• I think my greatest achievement in boxing is my following.

  Ricky Hatton

  Motivation, Thinking, Achievement

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• Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

  Muhammad Ali

  Rocks, Climbing, Cassius

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• Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.

  Howard Cosell

  Drama, Scales

  Howard Cosell, Peter Bonventre (1986). “I Never Played the Game”, Avon Books

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• It brings me great grief and sadness to hear of the passing of one of the best and most respected trainers of this era, Emanuel Steward. I learned a lot from him during our professional relationship and I will be forever grateful for his help during that time. We were also friends and I know I am going to miss him as so many others will too. He was an important part of our boxing community.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Grateful, Grief, Sadness

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• Boxing is the gift I have been given for whatever reason and I'd love to honour God in everything I do.

  Katie Taylor

  Reason, Given, Honour

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• Nothing will kill boxing, and nothing can save it.

  Larry Merchant

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• I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a great fighter, came to such an ignominious end.

  Larry Merchant

  Thinking, Able, Fighter

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