Top 572 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Boxers - Page 2

My strength is my weakness and weakness is my strength

It would give me a terrific sense of satisfaction to be the man who sent both Eubank and Benn into retirement. Benn doesn't need me to tell him that he's over the hill because, deep down, he knows it.

Reaganomics, that makes sense to me. It means if you don't have enough money, it's just because poor people are hoarding it.

At the finish, it was all over

People need a sense of purpose. Gross margins are not the stuff of which dreams are made. And even without going so far as to talk of dreams, you cannot inspire people to take action, create or motivate without instilling a sense of purpose, especially when times are difficult.

I have to believe that when things are bad I can change them.

A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

I was six foot one inch when I started fighting, but with all the uppercuts I'm up to six foot five inches.

Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg.

Its about letting go so you can get what what you want.

Nothing scares me. I'll do anything.

It's a different mindset. Coming from where I come from, we always had to defeat the odds. We didn't have what other people had. We had to work twice as hard for everything. To be noticed to be seen. Even back then it drove me to be the best that I can be. I wanted everyone to know I was somebody you had to watch.

Boxers are role models for a lot of young people. The sporting aspects should always be more important than business aspects.

I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!

Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?

I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight.

I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of travelling and visited various communities throughout Victoria. To see the way that my people looked at me and to know that I made a difference to them was an honour.

I'm a great believer in what happens on the field should stay there.

There's more tension in golf than in boxing because golfers bring it on themselves. It's silly really because it's not as if the golf ball is going to jump up and belt you on the whiskers, is it?

Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

There is a continuum that runs from character to productivity. Who you are and what you believe make a difference to those who look to you for leadership. The values you live will reach the bottom line of your company.

On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.

How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work

Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?

Hey baby. You're sexy like a chocolate strawberry.

King and Arum are alike. One's black and one's white. That's the only difference.

Donaire is a very good champion. We both have speed and power. The difference is intelligence. I was born to fight. The bigger the fight the better. If Donaire isn't right, he's going to get knocked out. Maybe five rounds, maybe less. Not sure yet. But you know what? Donaire stepped up and took this fight. He didn't have to. For that, I respect him for getting in the ring with me.

Don King is the best snake oil salesman I ever met. The absolute best.

Strong people don't put others down. they lift them up.

Talk of fighting Tyson is a little premature. I'm an addict and an alcoholic

We're hopeful it won't climb much more than that (10 percent). The reality is we're all looking at the price per gallon of gasoline and heating oil, and even cord wood, and we're seeing prices that are volatile and I don't think anybody can accurately predict what we'll be paying for these commodities in two weeks, let alone two months.

I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.

On May 3rd, THE MOMENT is going to be my moment.

In America they had no chance - I knocked them all cold in America

You know I like that fight and I'm confident of walking away with two super-middleweight titles

They bombed my granny's chippie, left it completely flat. I'll have her for that

I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.

When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.

I stop two hours before a fight

People tell me it was a great left hook, but I wouldn't know. I never saw it

I can't say that I ever worried much about what people thought or said of me. I like to be liked, and have often wished that I could be as much loved as Jim Driscoll, say, but I have never been able to bow down to rules and regulations

Hurdlers are sprinters with a problem. They're not satisfied just to sprint. Anybody can sprint, some not as well as others of course, but anybody can sprint. Not everybody can run hurdles. There's an extra dimension involved. Hurdlers would make a good subject for a thesis in psychology - they are of apersuasion that just needs an extra dimension.

The side's all right, but my bloody knees are killing me!

What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?

Patience is like ice cold water running through your veins, but our love will be immense

Dreams are those that don't let you sleep at night.

Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

Honestly, I don't like to brag about myself, but I really think I'm the only boxer who came out better from a Hopkins fight.

I don't even play video games because I don't like losing.

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.