Top 1200 Boxing Gloves Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Growing up in Vegas there is that complaint that we have no sports team. We have boxing, but no boxers are ever from Vegas, they're always from the east.

There are a lot of things that you see in the world ...We have a collection of gloves that have been run over by trucks that a friend named JP Williams collects. They are really beautiful. They look like sculpture. And he has a hundred pictures of them - we're making a book out of them. It's all that kind of ephemera, things that exist that no one really looks at unless it's put to them in a certain way.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.

We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of Floyd Mayweather, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao. We'll overstay our welcome.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

The one thing I can't get enough of is boxing. I love sparring in the ring or just doing the training, and it's easily one of the most effective ways of keeping off fat.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

If my son wants a boxing career, I won't stop him, but I definitely won't push him. It's bad for a kid to be pressured.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

Boxing's a business, and I've got a great team around me who have been looking after me in that sense.

Hagler was a puncher-slugger. He'd box sometimes, but boxing wasn't his forte. His thing was relentless punishment and 'beat you.'

Boni de Castellane drawing his chins onto his chest; shiny boots, embroidered morning coat, white gloves with black piping, big tie, light vest, the overwashed, bleached impression - 'blanched' as cooks say of boiled vegetables. That was the opposite of a dandy whose stylishness would remain imperceptible to Americans. Boni's style was highly visible.

When you've been at the top of the sport for so many years, it's your life, and it becomes very difficult just to quit boxing and find something else to be happy.

It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.

There's so much talent around here, east London in particular is full of talent. Whether that be boxing or football or music.

The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.

The first martial art my son learnt aged around ten was jiu-jitsu so he can already wrestle. I'd have no concerns about Christopher boxing someone from MMA.

For me, boxing is just a hobby and a science that I enjoy. I enjoy studying it and I'm a fan of the guys that are doing well.

I got [Muhammad Ali's boxing shorts] for $40 at an auction. Nobody wanted them. I have them framed in my house.

I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.

In the 1940s, boxing was a mainstream sport and deeply ingrained the fabric of Harlem. Joe Louis ruled the world, but the local icon was Sugar Ray Robinson.

If you think you're in shape, try boxing. You'll discover that you are not. It's the most physically challenging thing I've ever attempted, but I love it and I want to keep up some of the training.

Boxing has been my life, and it is my life. I've enjoyed every moment of it.

The reason I like Olympic boxing is that all the best fighters come together and find out who the best fighter is.

It's been a successful and enjoyable career for most of the time. I've lived the dream and done everything in boxing but sometimes it feels like I don't get the credit I deserve.

Boxing is not brutal, it's an art - God has gifted me with incredible handspeed as a tool to be used - what else am I supposed to do but fight? There ain't no hand-racing competitions.

Boxing is like any other sport, like football, basketball, whatever, where there's a strategy you stick to in order to win.

Fighting against undefeated IBF 154-pound champion Marie-Eve Dicaire continues my quest to fight the very best in women's boxing.

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

My boxing inspiration is to one day become world champion, to go as far as I can go and see where it takes me.

Our boxing is not like the men's. It's more thoughtful, more technical. It's not just, 'Get in there and hurt someone.'

We know the window of boxing don't last long. We want to try to get everything we can in this window and beat everyone we can.

I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required.

We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships.

Those kinds of fights when a warrior meets a warrior is something that should definitely take place in boxing.

Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.

What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Don King is a damn sleezebag. King is nothing but a strong-arm man. He has taken his gangsterism and put it into boxing.

Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.

I have a trainer. I love to do regular weight training, and I love to do boxing.

No matter what job I've undertaken, whether it was Glory Kickboxing or Strikeforce or Pride Fighting Championships or Showtime Championship Boxing, you have to play by the rules of the company you work for.

I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the most devastating thing in my boxing career, and it still hurts to this day.

It's great to be Puerto Rican, because Puerto Rico loves boxing. They don't have a lot of major sports down there.

Whose mother wants to see her son fight? It's very hard for her - but boxing is in my blood.

I just can't wait until we beat this coronavirus so the world can get on as normal and I can get back to boxing and doing what I do best.

I've always found boxing to be an incredibly pure sport. The level of character of most fighters I find very high. And it's just the best workout you can get.

I'm all for one month of going really hard and eating really healthy and boxing every day if you're doing it for, like, one job.

The life of a boxing athlete is short, so I don't have time to waste or time to take tune-up fights or whatever.

I spent a lot of time in a boxing gym but I concentrate on everything, wrestling, the Jiu-Jitsu and everything else.

Boxing's given me the chance to travel around the world and open the door and the world is much brighter.

I love to exercise. I'm a big hiker, and I like boxing. I mean, I love a good burger, but I keep things in moderation.

I'm a boxer. I'm a boxer. If you're interested, just watch my boxing, not my life.

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

I made some adaptations, as I combined karate with my boxing game. I'm adding a couple of nice things from Shotokan to my game.

The only thing on my mind is getting into that ring and destroying a boxing myth, someone who has reached a level of infamy through doing a number of stupid things.

Boxing is really hard because you have to be in really good shape to have all those rules and just using your hands.