Top 1200 Boxing Gloves Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I sometimes say I am in a relationship with boxing.

Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

People understand boxing in the U.K. The fans love it.

I'm working on my boxing. I hope people see that.

I think my greatest achievement in boxing is my following.

When my title was taken away boxing died.

In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there.

Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

I was born with a flat nose, that's not because of boxing.

Madison Square Gardens is the Mecca of boxing.

I was born asthmatic so came into boxing with deficiencies.

People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.

I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love.

In all my years in boxing I'd never known such heat

Boxing is a more sophisticated form of hockey.

I absolutely love boxing. I live and breathe it.

With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!

I always thought I would be a boxing champion.

I want to bring something new to boxing.

Some have made boxing a terrible thing to be around.

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

Without boxing, there ain't no life. For me, at least.

Boxing is my calling and so I have no fear of getting hurt.

When I go into a boxing ring, I'm willing to die.

My job is to work my best boxing in the ring.

We want to take boxing to the level of cricket.

I do a lot of kick-boxing to keep in shape.

I think the boxing game is supposed to be a gentleman's sport.

There's a lot of politics in boxing and it's destroying the game.

Hit and move, that's amateur boxing and that's what I'm good at.

I've always wanted to learn kick boxing.

Boxing's not in my blood... it just grew on me.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

I may demonstrate the various stages of making a loaf on stage, but they don't end up in the final product I lift out of the oven at the end. If it were real food preparation, I'd wear a hair net, a hat, and rubber gloves - not a pretty sight.

The physicality of boxing is like nothing else.

I trained in kick-boxing and Muay Thai.

Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.

Boxing is insane and, in my opinion, should be banned.

I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied.

My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.

If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.

It's only boxing, don't worry about it. Let's get it on!

I've been boxing since I was 7 years old.

Long Island has a great boxing tradition.

Boxing is all hard work. I don't care what level you're on.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

I have designs I like applied to my helmet, motorcycle, riding suits, gloves,and boots. I have a designer friend of mine put the designs on them for me. I think a livery on the helmet is significant in expressing a rider's personality.

Amateur boxing is one of the safest sports around.

No electricity, no hot water, no heat - at times, we struggled. We'd wake up in the morning and wash with water we heated on a hot plate. And we'd go to bed at night wearing skull caps, sweat shirts, and gloves.

Boxing fans are a very cynical bunch.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

Boxing is a big part of American cinema.

I'm proud of everything that I've accomplished since I was a little boy. That was my dream - to be a ballplayer. I didn't dream to win so many Gold Gloves, or Silver Bats or play in All-Star Games or World Series. I was just dreaming to play the game.

I want to break down barriers in boxing.

I want to be remembered as a guy who transcended boxing.

The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.

I took boxing classes and karate when I was young.

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.