Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.
I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.
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.
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'm back in Boston. I own an outdoor deck hockey rink, and I own a boxing gym here also.
Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.
Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
I'm already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.
I'm a boxer. I'm a boxer. If you're interested, just watch my boxing, not my life.
I've been boxing since I was eight, and that's a long time to take punches day after day.
I want the best and to get the most out of my short boxing career by fighting the best I can.
My life is way bigger than boxing or acting or being rich or being famous or endorsements.
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?
Boxing has been my life, and it is my life. I've enjoyed every moment of it.
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 started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.
I have a trainer. I love to do regular weight training, and I love to do boxing.
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 one fight at a time for me. That's how I've always been, and that's how I was brought up.
Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.
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.
I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.
Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.
I never really, really pushed my boys into boxing, but I guess it's in the blood.
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.
Boxing's a funny business and sometimes different fights come along at different times.
I pretty much know when people are talking rubbish and when they're serious. It's common in boxing, rubbish.
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.
This is boxing - you can't really say what is going to happen because anything can happen in that square ring.
It's very rare in British boxing that you have two fighters who are both undefeated and who are both world champions.
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.
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've not been paid millions of pounds for any fights. I've not made any money out of boxing.
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.
I want to become a star in the United States because I want to show everyone quality boxing.
I like reading autobiographies and magazines like Boxing News and Men's Health, especially when away for tournaments.
Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career.
I've done it in kickboxing, I've done it in boxing. After you clean out a division, you move up in weight.
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.
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.
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.
I want to have the same success in my acting career as I did in my boxing career.
Maybe I'll go to acting school. Acting is like boxing, you know.
When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
There have been many boxing comebacks over the years, and sadly many of them do not have a happy ending.
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.
Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.
New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
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.
I like to do things that are noncombat- or boxing-related. So I jump rope a lot, and then I run a lot.
Being a ballet dancer isn't cool. Football, boxing, hockey... they're cool. And you make more money.
I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.
I think there's a lack of respect for me out there, from the promoters, boxing people. It's something I've faced ever since I put on gloves. I don't understand it. I know my father doesn't.
I just love boxing. Train to get there and to just fight somebody.
The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business.
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.
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.
There are beautiful things about the sport of boxing and there are ugly things.
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