Top 572 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Boxers - Page 9

I'm not going to be a name chaser. I just love to fight.

I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout.

I am ready to defeat Manny Pacquiao. Dude, I'm the champion of the world.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

The beauty about boxing fights is that they offer lots of opportunity to really learn something about yourself and your opponent.

Every champion was once a challenger.

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

I had heard everything, Larry gonna knock me out, he gonna beat me, this and that. I got so sick of that. I had a little talk with myself in my bedroom and I said, Don't think about getting in the ring with Larry Holmes, I mean, Don't forget Larry Holmes is getting in the ring with you. You're champ for so many years. And just do what you're best at. What I am best at was not letting anybody have their way with me in the ring.

Try to sell cold callers something and be very insistent. Works well. Also good for door-to-door sales people, especially if they're wearing poor shoes.

I've always been the same since I was a kid, maybe it was the way I was brought up, but I've never liked arrogant people.

I don't slack in my punches.

It is true that we have not deliberately or wholly abandoned the Christian element in our tradition, but does that element count with us as it once did? Is the moral tone of the nation - its politics, its business life, its literature, its theatre, its movies, its radio networks, its television stations - Christian?

As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.

I had did so much to Larry [Holmes] in the ring that I made him respect me in the fight.

The one mindset I have is this title - title or bust.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

I'm in the boxing game to be a champion. That's why I'm in boxing.

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

I've been training fighters about 10 years. And I know I get the kids that nobody else is gonna want. I get kids who violated probation five, six, seven times. Their parents don't want 'em, the police don't want 'em - nobody wants 'em. And so I say, okay, I was like that. Nobody wanted me. Once I found out that a nobody could do what I did, I took a whole bunch of nobodies. When you take a nobody, they're open to anything, so that's what I started working with. I started working with the worst kids that nobody else wants to deal with.

The judges are much closer to the action than the fans are. Fans sure can sway the way a fight looks. I am confident in the ability of the judges and if I do what I need to do and things go the way that we plan, we will come out with the victory regardless of the fan support.

People want to criticize everything you do. People criticize Pacquiao, Mayweather or Obama, everyone that is at the top of their game.

I will take anyone at 147.

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

Unfortunately with certain situations, just sometimes it's just the way it is. It could be a problem with the promotion side or training or anything. Management, sometimes doesn't work out. Sometimes certain guys just choose to fight other guys.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

I feel like I've been victimised. It's because of who I am. I've done my time for past mistakes, if it wasn't me there wouldn't be a reaction.

Boxing is a sport that is largely dominated by machos, by men who think we have to conform to a very specific role model. The ideal boxer doesn't think too much, is raw and brimming with strength. I am also fascinated by strength, but for me style is a part of that.

Forgiveness. It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place.

I knew my time would come I just had to stay focused and disciplined and if you work hard good things happen. I am right where I am supposed to be.

Boxing is a business. I'm not going to say I would never work with people again because we have had disagreements in the past. So if it makes money it makes sense. That doesn't mean we won't agree again in the future.

I may not be fighting the most popular guys like Canelo or GGG. But I am fighting real fighters, tough guys who want to prove that they belong and be world champions.

If you lose a fight you were paid £800,000 for, the next fight you'll get £100,000 so that's a big drop. If your ratings drop everything drops. I just want to make a good living for my daughter and the rest of my family and to enjoy life.

I appreciate all my fans. I appreciate anybody who has asked me for an autograph, or has complimented me as a fighter. When I go to the Hall of Fame events, I'm always well received and respected.

When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.

Who's next! I got milk baby, who's next!

I drink mate every day during training camp, and just in general. It's packed full of vitamins and nutrients and a lot of B vitamins that you would normally get from meat. The caffeine in there affects me less and it's more like a stimulant. I can drink more of it and it's hydrating as well. It's one of my favorite drinks, especially on a cold morning.

When you do well in school as a young person you can foresee a bountiful future for yourself. When you don't do well, the future you see is bleak. It's tough to find an honour student in trouble with the law. We have to feel that we're of value and we get that from people reacting to our prudence.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

One thing I see in a lot of coaches is they try to live through the fighter. You can't live through the fighter. You gotta allow the fighter to be the fighter, and do what he do, and you just try to guide him. Why should I have to live through a fighter, when I went from eating out of a trashcan to being eight-time world champion? I stood in the limelight and did what I had to do as a fighter. I've been where that fighter is trying to go.

Once Im in the ring, Im there to win no matter what it takes. Nobody and nothing can stop me, my will cannot be broken

No one can ever doubt my heart.

Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

We're going to go back to the drawing board and see what we can correct. But at the end of the day, we fought Manny Pacquiao in a chess match, we did well and what doesn't kill us will make us stronger.

If you don't take chances, you can't do anything in life.

I don't see anything wrong in sticking your thumb into a guy's eye. Just a little.

Here lies Gomez Addams -- he was good for nothing.

I'm a clean boxer. You don't have to worry about any dirty tactics.

Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

Am I really one of those who has to go to everyone else's back garden to get a fight? I believe I'm bigger than that really.

I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.

I can't worry about nobody else. I've got to be Danny Garcia and win my fights and everything else will fall into place.

I can't say that I have a biggest inspiration because I look at all positive inspirations. My mom, my dad and my coach, too, inspire me. No one is bigger. I just use it all and take it and use it.

When an elephant is by himself, he can attack lions and get away with it.

There is a lot more to me than just walking guys down. I have speed, I have power, I have a crazy uppercut, I can move to the side. There are a lot of ways I can get it done.

I have the final say in the business side of my boxer's career. But as far as me being in the meetings every day, the back and forth of the paperwork and stuff like that, I have got a job to do. I am in the gym every day. The fighting lifestyle is an unforgiving one. You want to keep yourself as focussed and stress - free as possible. I have a team who focus on the more complicated aspects, on the business side of boxing, which I don't need to get myself involved in. I think I am involved in the business as much as I need to be.

They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.

It means the most when your team always supports you.

I apologize for my wild imagination.