Top 572 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Boxers - Page 8

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

An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.

Scary movies scare me. The Exorcist is really scary.

I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.

I don't get the credit I deserve but I continue to work hard and it fuels me.

I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight.

Fighting Manny Pacquiao is like playing a very fast game of chess. He was very fast and sharp. You have to be alert at all times and on your toes. There was a lot of incoming.

Mexican boxing is very aggressive; you go forward with great heart. The American style is always that you run around, you try to be elusive. The Mexican style is much better. I never tried to be elusive.

I am no busier than I have ever been - I have always been a busy guy.

Jack Sprat could eat no fat,His wife could eat no lean. A real sweet pair of neurotics.

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

I never run away from any opponent.

I like fighting at the higher weight. That extra seven pounds helps because of energy, strength and I can focus more throughout the training camp, without having to put extra time into making weight.

I'm gonna challenge Camacho, Rosario or anyone else who has the lightweight title.

Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

I think every great champion has a bad night.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

Joe Gallager's like a petulant child sometimes. In press conferences, for instance, when we're talking, he's rolling his eyes like a schoolgirl, pretending he's not listening. It's disrespectful and I don't like that.

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

After the mines, what is fighting? Fighting is child's play

Although I do have advantages in the division, 154 pounds is getting kind of tough to make.

I do not care about titles, I am glad I have one now because nobody wanted to fight me, now they will.

I was hungry and I was looking for a way to better my life. With boxing, I didn't have to make a team. It wasn't like baseball or football. I could just walk in the gym and start doing something that I liked.

It's not the black belt that you wear on your waist. It's the black belt in your heart and knowing that you can go out there and you can do it. That's what a true black belt is.

I developed physically and mentally to take such a big step in my life and in my profession, which is boxing, knowing that it would have pros and cons, highs and lows in this sport that is so macho. I kept this hidden for many, many years.

We need to get more people watching boxing. I love this sport and anything we can do to help it is great.

I've done a lot of rounds with Teofimo Lopez, sparring in Miami - so I know about him.

My motivation has to do with what happened to my family. I want to help young people make important decisions at the most important time in their life. If I didn't do this, it would be like my kids died in vain. I want to help them make the right decisions.

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

Trust me, everybody likes to come forward with me, but they all just tire out.

Manny Pacquiao, Errol Spence or anybody who wants to fight me, I'm here. Let's get it on.

It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

I talk to a shrink. I actually enjoy it, but it costs too much money - it's like £250 a session! It's good though, the whole nation should be on it.

I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.

It's Northern Ireland, it's Ireland, it's Scotland, it's Wales, there's Scousers, Londoners, all behind me.

I'm not a real religious guy. I'm a spiritual guy and my religion is love.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

It takes a lot when you are a professional fighter to stay in top condition. You have to sacrifice a lot and I did.

I think it's doing a good job at the things that Premier Boxing Champions was setting out for. I think it is still heading in the right direction, I don't think it's over. It is definitely bringing more boxing fans and an audience from people that normally wouldn't be watching boxing. I think it's doing a great job and will probably do a better job in the future.

Boxing is not a bodybuilding sport, plain and simple. Your body isn't going to win a fight.

I have read articles. I don't need to go out there and keep saying it. The people that 'know boxing.' Everybody is out there saying it. But that's OK. I am going to go out there and shut everybody up.

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".

A lot of the time you have good fighters with good records, some top-class fighters, and they do some kind of crazy stuff, and there's nothing that you can do to stop them from doing it. That's the hardest part of training others.

I've done a bit of football.

I've seen the consequences of what can happen when you're unprepared for a fight, or not as prepared as your opponent.I can't let anything like that happen to me, I've got too many goals, too much ambition in the sport. We're looking to fight for a world title this year.

They criticize because they don't have a life. It's easy to criticize another person.

Becoming world champion is something I have worked at for my entire career. It doesn't matter to me that my first title shot is at a different weight. The opportunity is at super-middleweight and I am going to take it. But that doesn't mean I am forever going to be restricted to the super-middleweight division. I've still got a lot of work to do, a lot of unfinished business at middleweight.

It’s all about one split-second. Boxing is a funny thing…you blink your eyes and somebody says ‘Goodnight’ to you.

But I also want kids who suffer from bullying to know that you can be whoever you want to be in life, including a professional boxer. That anything is possible and that who you are or whom you love should not be an impediment to achieving anything in life.

The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth spiritual attitudes, moral principles of universal validity, such as " Love your enemies," "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them," and it leaves to Christians the task-the admittedly difficult task-of applying them in any given situation.

Amateur boxing is like a game but you have to be spiteful as a pro. I've got that spiteful streak. I've always had it - just ask my mum and dad.

I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20. I never watched a boxing match life in my life. The only boxer I had ever heard of was Muhammad Ali.

Boxing is a business. I have been in the professional game for five years now - I'm not doing it for nothing. I am doing it so I can provide for my future family, so I can have a future. I am here to make money. And at the same time I'm the most exciting fighter in Britain, if not the world, in my opinion. I don't know anybody else in the game that does the things I do in the ring.

He was bested by a better fighter, ...I didn't feel like he was intimidated. If I made a mistake he would have punished me.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.