Boxing Quotes

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. (Muhammad Ali)
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. View quote
Joe Frazier
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. View quote
Frank Bruno
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. View quote
Emo Philips
[The] third man in the ring makes boxing possible. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Boxing has become America's tragic theater. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents. View quote
Idi Amin
I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way. (Sophia Bush)
Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world. View quote
Alexis Arguello
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero. View quote
Dick Schaap
Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months. View quote
Dick Schaap
Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us. View quote
Omar Epps
[On boxing] [For] The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out. View quote
Jennifer Beals
When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie. View quote
Dolph Lundgren
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. View quote
Billy Joel
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won. View quote
George Foreman
I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing - for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified. (André Maurois)
Boxing Helena was something that I think was pretty cool, but people judged it without even having seen it. It's not perfect, but I think for the story that we were trying to tell, it turned out pretty good. What it signified was really powerful to me: how society puts us in boxes one way or another. View quote
Sherilyn Fenn
In boxing, if you think you will lose.. you're already halfway there. View quote
Lennox Lewis
I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me. View quote
Lennox Lewis
Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble. View quote
Sugar Ray Robinson