Top 1200 Boxing Gloves Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.

On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.

I started at a small school in Virginia, and I learned how to wrestle - at least take falls - in a boxing ring.

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

I got a bit down, depressed and fat, but I needed to be out of the game to realise I need boxing.

Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.

When we first started in Huntington Recreation with John Capobianco, we put four kids in the Golden Gloves finals. We didn't even have a ring. We trained at Stimson Junior High School. They give us the gym three nights a week. We used to box in the gym - no ring, just on the gym floor.

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

So who or what is to blame for baseball games that go on forever? Two oft-cited culprits are constant replay calls and batters who leave the box in between every pitch to adjust their gloves and helmet and shin guards and elbow pads and then knock the dirt off their cleats before working up their stride for the next at-bat.

I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.

I don't have the runs on the board to trash talk anyone in the boxing sense. I've got to do it the hard way and earn that respect.

When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services.

Everybody knows that rebounding is my strong point, so they're boxing me out. I've just got work harder.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

People love boxing, but you've gotta wait two or three years for your favorite boxer to have a fight.

When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seamed stockings and a garment belt underneath, a skirt, high heels, and her hair that she's done the night before, perfectly done eyeliner, lipstick, gloves, perhaps, and all this just to sit on an airplane for a transcontinental flight.

I think the beauty and mystery of boxing is just the immediacy of how it reveals people unlike anything else.

People ask for autographs, and I wonder why before realising, 'Oh, that's right, I'm doing well in boxing.'

I don't have any ill will towards any of my opponents. I understand we are the highest calibre of athlete in this sport, and we will both go and give it our all. But I don't want anyone to misinterpret what I am saying: when we step into that octagon and we touch gloves, I am going to break his face.

When you think that in the '50s there was wrestling and boxing - that was it. There wasn't mixed martial arts at all; there wasn't even karate in the United States.

No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

It's a beautiful sport, boxing, when you're winning and everything is going well but when you hit the lows it really upsets you.

I've never boxed before in my life. I've had one day's training at a boxing gym, and it's an incredibly difficult sport.

Finally Doug broke the stalemate and looked at Megan. "Thanks a lot," he said sarcastically. Then he yanked off his plastic gloves, tossed them at her feet, and stormed away. Finn let out a sigh as he gazed after his brother. "You know, my parents really should have stopped with me.

Perhaps it is no surprise I became an entertainer because many of my relatives were natural performers. Dad, who had a fine pair of lungs, was master of ceremonies at East Ham working men's club in east London. I felt so proud when I saw him in his white gloves calling out the names of the dances.

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level.

Once or twice a week, I try to do some kind of boxing. I'm hitting the bags and jumping rope - all that stuff.

When I went to L.A., I had trainer there, worked on Parkour and boxing to get my body used to working out every day.

In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.

I've been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu all my life. Boxing, kickboxing. I'm definitely not a fighter, but I defend my honor.

Boxing is a business and if it makes sense, other than my brother (Anthony), damn right I'll fight 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.

They say 'you've over trained, you've left it in the gym' is the most common phrase used in boxing but my god it is the truest.

I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I am just me. I like boxing and acting and doing my charity work.

Music is a great part of my life. It helps me relax and keep calm whenever I am not boxing.

I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.

When I finished boxing, all that was available was commentating. But that's not me. I've got too much artistic licence to get out.

Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsession to get the most from this short life.

I tried a bunch of things, like Jiu Jitsu boxing classes. I don't know why, but I did.

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

Youngsters taking up boxing will get a lot of encouragement to do something for the country, seeing my laurels.

My jiu-jitsu style is definitely not the most entertaining one, so I'd rather do boxing and entertain the fans a little more.

I wouldn't say that I'm the most avoided man in boxing, but a few guys might avoid me in the middleweight division.

In prison, the gloves were off, the comforting rhetoric and rationalization were absent. To use a phrase from Plato, I saw the laws of our society 'writ large' - its flagrant inequalities of opportunity and disastrous results, its contempt for vast categories of our fellow human beings, its reliance on institutional violence.

For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.

I was thrown into this world of training, and weightlifting, and boxing, and cardio. It's amazing to feel your body being capable of that.

I used to work out for eight hours a day, which includes running, boxing and martial arts.

I love the beach and rock climbing and boxing and nature, so I like to stay away from my phone as much as possible.

Fight prep, boxing, cardio, stretching. It's almost like dancing, you have to learn to dance and keep practicing it.

My brothers first brought me to boxing. I dedicate the fights to them and my father and fight for my family.

A couple must agree on the following topics: 1) Do they want kids? 2) Do they want a dog? 3) Do they want sex? 4) Do they want sleep? (If they answer yes to 3 and 4, then they must answer no to 1.) And finally, 5) Who mixes the cocktails before they both don the sexy rubber gloves and clean the toilet?

Americans did not want to see a Mexican become more popular in boxing than Muhammad Ali.

When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.

That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.