Top 1200 Boxing Gloves Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

I just felt I had done enough in the sport to put my stamp on boxing.

God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.

In boxing, there's no more secrets today. Technology is such that you know everything about everyone.

Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.

Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

When I'm boxing, if my career isn't going well, at least I feel mentally and physically strong.

No doubt boxing's brutal beauty lies in the eye of the rooting beholder.

Rocky Marciano stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump.

The streets are tough but sport, and boxing especially, has put me on the right path in my life.

My favorite was going as a boxer when I was 9 years old and wearing my dad's boxing gear.

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

In life most of us are only really good at one thing - and with me it's boxing.

I want to fight in Madison Square Garden because it's the mecca of boxing. This is my dream.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

I do a bit of boxing in the off-season to stay fit - it's a different kind of fitness.

Mark Prince is a massive inspiration to me, he has been since I started boxing.

My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.

Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

My dad was a kind of Kimbo Slice-type street fighter. He'd go out in the backyards up and down the Gulf Coast and duke it out. They'd wrap T-shirts around their hands for gloves, and take bets. He was a tremendous body puncher. One shot was usually all it took, so they called him 'One Time.'

I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.

I boxed, I was 2-0 as far as amateur boxing and it was fun but I didn't really want to compete no more.

Listen, you can't just come in to boxing and be a world champion. You've got to be born with it.

What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.

There's always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

Unlike most sports playing fields, a boxing ring is a temporary structure.

I'm not going to get tired in a 12 round boxing event, especially if I have time to prepare for it.

I want to retire from boxing by the time I am 25 or 26 and be a legend by that age.

If it amuses you to hit people, you do boxing - you do taekwondo - whatever you want. But you don't play football.

In boxing, if a fighter doesn't leave the sport on time, something bad is likely to happen.

It's kind of hard for boxing, which is a violent sport, to get the respect that it deserves.

Before boxing I was a car salesman but I was horrible at it and had to make a living elsewhere.

For the boxing, Muhammad Ali and the Michael Tyson both Iron Sheik class.

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

This is what boxing always needs - two young, undefeated fighters willing to risk their '0.'

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

On Boxing Day, we always go for a walk in our wellies with the dogs, no matter where we are.

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.

Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

I've been boxing for a while now, and I probably could fight a little bit if I wanted to.

Boxing is a place where, if you haven't done the training, that's going to be exposed very quickly.

Golovkin and Alvarez are two of the most attractive fighters in boxing and they're in my division.

I wouldn't be boxing if I wasn't given the all-clear by the doctors, I wouldn't put my family or myself through that.

I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.

People talk about world title offers, but boxing is not a sprint, it's a marathon.

I had dreams in 2000 of being an Olympian for boxing. I never talk about it.

I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.

UFC is street fighting in a cage. Boxing is a controlled, skilled talent. There's no comparison.

Dementia pugilistica was discovered in 1928... And we still have boxing. Football will continue.

Sugar Ray wouldn't give me a rematch, and that's the reason I walked away from boxing.

My dad had his dream of being a champion boxing trainer. He accomplished that.

In football what counts is team spirit. It isn't an individual sport like boxing or tennis.

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

...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves...I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.

It's hard to believe I was just seven when I started boxing but I've put everything of myself into it.

Before boxing, I was this angry kid ready to fight if someone said, 'Hello.'

Women's boxing has received a major boost from the success of 'Million Dollar Baby.'