Boxing is by far one of the best things to happen to my life. — Logan Paul
Whether boxing is fixable or not remains to be seen. I'm going to give it a shot. — Dana White
We put on fights between the best fighters; we don't put on freak shows. — Dana White
Boxing is entertainment, so to be successful a fighter must not only win but he must win in an exciting manner. He must throw punches with bad intentions. — Cus D'Amato
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. — Frank Bruno
Boxing is very one dimensional. You can hit to the head, you can hit to the body. As soon as two guys get into a clinch, you're separated. — Dana White
In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess. — Lennox Lewis
Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up. — Muhammad Ali
The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men. — Joe Frazier
MMA guys, we sparred a lot of them training for KSI because of the wild punches. — Logan Paul
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. — Muhammad Ali
I'm not like a full athlete. But I'm definitely a boxer. — Logan Paul
Boxing has definitely allowed me to focus on something other than just creating content which I think we've seen historically can be so toxic. — Logan Paul
Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents. — Idi Amin
Short Boxing Matches Quotes
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won. — Muhammad Ali
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. — Muhammad Ali
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. — Muhammad Ali
Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you. — Mike Tyson
We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH! — Drew Bundini Brown
I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion. — Idi Amin
The most famous athletes throughout the history of time are fighters. — Dana White
At the end of the day, when you're dealing with heavyweights who can punch, anything is possible. — Dana White
You have to punch hard for knockouts, and to beat me, you have to knock me out. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living. — Evander Holyfield
At the end of the game the kind and the pawn go back in the same box.
Great Boxing Quotes
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it. — Manfred von Richthofen
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are. — Muhammad Ali
Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble. — Sugar Ray Robinson
The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic. — Jake LaMotta
Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters. — Billie Jean King
A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion. — Evander Holyfield
There’s something about beating another human into the ground who also has the ability to fight for his life and the opportunity to take yours. it makes you feel particularly great when you win. — Jake Paul
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. — Emo Philips
And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. — Charles Bukowski
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat. — Anna Quindlen
There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. — Joan Miro
I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?" — Muhammad Ali
The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance. — Rodrigue Tremblay
A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat. — Sonny Liston
People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match. — George Foreman
The match would have to be made at 165 pounds. Sean can't make 160 any more, even though he's drinking lite beer these days — Angelo Dundee
Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana. — Richard Rodriguez
You always want to see people who are just like a little outside of the box. Maybe making mistakes sometimes. Not taking something that's straight off the runway, but mixing and matching things. Old and new. — Jacob Hashimoto
Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. — Wladimir Klitschko
You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches. — Nancy Sinatra
For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of kitchen matches. — P. J. O'Rourke
Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit. — Evander Holyfield
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. — Andre Maurois
In a boxing match, the fighters absorb some vicious blows because they’re ready for them. And usually, the knockout punch is the one they didn’t see coming. — Todd Burpo
My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime. — Teri Polo
Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that. — Wladimir Klitschko
But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in. — Roone Arledge
I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat. — Markus Zusak
Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house. — Sharon Horgan
Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing. — David Lyons
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. — Charles Bukowski
A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches — Jeff Lindsay
I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20. I never watched a boxing match life in my life. The only boxer I had ever heard of was Muhammad Ali. — Jeff Fenech
Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing. That's what's great about the choreography that goes on here. It's a delicate ballet with a fist in the face. — David Lyons
I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together. — Don King
I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end. — Mitch Hedberg
I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores. — Charles Bukowski
After the first glass of vodka
you can accept just about anything
of life even your own mysteriousness
you think it is nice that a box
of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden
for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there? — Frank O'Hara
If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match. — Wyclef Jean
I'm not the most athletic gal, but because making a movie is very physical, I slow down on the Krispy Kreme and Ice Blendeds. I start to get leaner and more focused - like I'm going into a boxing match - because I'm about to really try to put this idea on its feet. — Ava DuVernay
When I was a kid I got mad enough to want to kill somebody but as you travel the world and I'm struggling with a freedom fight against nations, you can't get enough hate in you to be mad at one man just because it's a boxing match. Never. Even Floyd Paterson, who condemned my Islamic religion and didn't want to call me Muhammad Ali and said I should've gone to the army and I should be in jail. — Muhammad Ali
The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis. — Chrissie Hynde
When I had a boxing match, all I wanted to do was put the guy on his back. That's why I chose to chase after MMA. — Jake Hecht
Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts. — Henry David Thoreau
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. — Joyce Carol Oates
Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match. — Erica Jong
I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean. — Virginia Woolf
An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches. — A. A. Gill
Mitt Romney announced he will fight former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in a charity boxing match. You can tell that Romney is serious about it. Today, his butler gave him a piggyback ride up the steps of the Philadelphia art museum. — Jimmy Fallon
During a charity boxing match on Friday, Mitt Romney lasted two rounds against Evander Holyfield and raised a million dollars. It was just like Holyfield's fight with Mike Tyson, except Romney chewed off his other ear talking about his 18 grandchildren. — Jimmy Fallon
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