Top 1200 Boxing Gloves Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

We try to tell these guys that the end of a boxing career isn't the end of their lives: it's the beginning of a new one.

I never really, really pushed my boys into boxing, but I guess it's in the blood.

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.

I've been boxing since I was eight, and that's a long time to take punches day after day.

John Kerry is going to have a rough tenure as secretary of state. But let's face it: whoever came after Hillary Clinton was going to have to deal with a foreign affairs press corps that has been sleeping for four years. From the moment Hillary entered Foggy Bottom, political reporters have treated their beloved secretary of state with kid gloves.

Maidana has to make me respect his power and his boxing skills.

I've done it in kickboxing, I've done it in boxing. After you clean out a division, you move up in weight.

You can never say never in this game, but I can't see myself boxing again. There's loads of things I want to do.

I was lucky. I held on to some of my money. I didn't really know what I wanted to do after boxing. But I found what I wanted to do.

I want to have the same success in my acting career as I did in my boxing career.

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

I want to become a star in the United States because I want to show everyone quality boxing.

I've not been paid millions of pounds for any fights. I've not made any money out of boxing.

I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.

Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.

Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career.

I've been doing a lot of training and that's that. Boxing, weights, just been working.

I think I needed boxing as an excuse, to be busy, 'cause if I wasn't busy I was getting into trouble.

I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.

Boxing is a lonely sport and when you lose it's hard to take and it's hard to get over.

This is boxing - you can't really say what is going to happen because anything can happen in that square ring.

Maybe I'll go to acting school. Acting is like boxing, you know.

I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.

There are beautiful things about the sport of boxing and there are ugly things.

I'm putting everything I have into my boxing career so I get everything out of it I possibly can.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

I'm back in Boston. I own an outdoor deck hockey rink, and I own a boxing gym here also.

Boxing's a funny business and sometimes different fights come along at different times.

I want the best and to get the most out of my short boxing career by fighting the best I can.

I like to do things that are noncombat- or boxing-related. So I jump rope a lot, and then I run a lot.

All boxers are OCD. You can see a bit of OCD in me before I go into the ring. I can't put on my right boot before my left. It's the same with my gloves. It's got to always be the left foot and the left hand first. I would freak out if I did it differently. I have to do the left first because that's the way I done it when I won the Olympics.

I like reading autobiographies and magazines like Boxing News and Men's Health, especially when away for tournaments.

Being a ballet dancer isn't cool. Football, boxing, hockey... they're cool. And you make more money.

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.

I'm already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

My life is way bigger than boxing or acting or being rich or being famous or endorsements.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

In boxing there are only two ways out: you get knocked out or you quit.

The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business.

It's very rare in British boxing that you have two fighters who are both undefeated and who are both world champions.

There have been many boxing comebacks over the years, and sadly many of them do not have a happy ending.

I just love boxing. Train to get there and to just fight somebody.

I'm trying to involve the fans and bring in a crowd where not only do they love boxing but they love me as a person.

Growing, up I didn't really have anyone to look up to. There weren't a lot of Mexicans on T.V. except for those in boxing.

I pretty much know when people are talking rubbish and when they're serious. It's common in boxing, rubbish.

Boxing is one fight at a time for me. That's how I've always been, and that's how I was brought up.

I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.