100 Great Boxing Quotes

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Famous Great Boxing Quotes

Boxing is by far one of the best things to happen to my life. — Logan Paul

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

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. — Frank Bruno

Whether boxing is fixable or not remains to be seen. I'm going to give it a shot. — Dana White

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

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

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing. — Sugar Ray Leonard

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

One of the reasons boxing is one of the greatest things to happen to my life is because it made me human again. — Logan Paul

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won. — Muhammad Ali

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess. — Lennox Lewis

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. - Muhammad Ali

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. — Muhammad Ali

Look at what George Foreman did to Michael Moorer. No matter his age, he hits so hard that he's always in a fight. — Dana White

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. — Muhammad Ali

I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out. — Alexis Arguello

Short Great Boxing Quotes

  • We put on fights between the best fighters; we don't put on freak shows. — Dana White
  • I think Cormier's one of the greatest to ever do it. Two-time, two-division world champion. — Dana White
  • Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you. — Mike Tyson
  • I'm not like a full athlete. But I'm definitely a boxer. — Logan Paul
  • Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest — Manny Pacquiao
  • MMA guys, we sparred a lot of them training for KSI because of the wild punches. — Logan Paul
  • At the end of the day, when you're dealing with heavyweights who can punch, anything is possible. — Dana White
  • I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion. — Idi Amin
  • We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH! — Drew Bundini Brown
  • The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep — Angelo Dundee
Great boxing quote Silence is a source of great strength.
Silence is a source of great strength.

Powerful 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 trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). — Faith Popcorn

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi

Great boxing quote Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.

Sure, beauty has the power to excite men. But so does a box of donuts. — Susan Jane Gilman

Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of the people. We have made war upon it, and we mean to win it. If we can, we will win through the ballot box; if not, then we shall resort to sterner means. — William H. Sylvis

The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box. — Christine Pelosi

Great boxing quote Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.

To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in. — Neil Tennant

You've got to think outside the box. If you can't, that's going to put you behind the power curve in a big way. — Joe Teti

I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way — Holly Hunter

I have a trainer that I box with. Luckily, on ER, they'll tell me if I have a shirtless scene coming up and I'll have a few weeks to power it out. — John Stamos

Good Boxing Quotes

Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. 'Here, open it, it's perfect. You'll love it.' Opportunities -- the good ones -- are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you. — Susan Wojcicki

I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money. — Joe Louis

Lorenzo Fertitta was a good friend of mine since we were kids. He and I were going to do something together in boxing anyway, so I called Lorenzo - he was down in Miami - and I said, ‘You know what, I just found out the UFC is for sale. What do you think?’ And he said, ‘That’s interesting. — Dana White

Great boxing quote Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box. — Barbara Corcoran

This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box. — Edward R. Murrow

You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing. — Gerry Cooney

Great boxing quote At the end of the game the kind and the pawn go back in the same box.
At the end of the game the kind and the pawn go back in the same box.

I guess you never know what's going to come at you in life, but the answer is never to crawl into a box and throw in the towel. There is good that can come from anything, even if it's just a later laugh and a good story. — Lindsey Stirling

A good way to lose weight is to put salt on your ass and go to a petting zoo. But stay away from goats because I've seen them fornicate with a mail box. — Sayings

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with. — will.i.am

Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good. — Joe Louis

Boxing Matches Quotes

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. - Emo Philips

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. — Emo Philips

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

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. - Charles Bukowski

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. — Charles Bukowski

Great boxing quote Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

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

Great boxing quote You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

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

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

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More Great Boxing Quotes

He can run, but he can't hide. - Joe Louis quote

He can run, but he can't hide. — Joe Louis

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters. - Billie Jean King quote

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters. — Billie Jean King

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

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

Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right. — Eero Saarinen

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 champion shows who he is by what he does. — Evander Holyfield

The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world. — Mike Tyson

The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery till he detects their relation and sees where they fit, and then his fragments grow at once into a connected picture beneath his hand. — Louis Agassiz

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. — Muhammad Ali

It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it. — Angelo Dundee

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy. — Joe Louis

I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine. — Don King

It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here. — Luci Swindoll

For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky. — Muhammad Ali

I'm not a tough guy or a good fighter at all. [Boxing] is just a great way to work out that's not boring. It's also good for your mental health. If you have an Irish or Scottish last name you should definitely do it. — Gavin McInnes

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. — Bob Hope

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick. — Muhammad Ali

All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house. — Willie Pep

Being a part of the finesse and physicality of box lacrosse has been a great experience for me. I feel that I have learned and improved as an overall lacrosse player. Learning to adapt in tight space while reading defenders and offensive players has been the biggest improvement in my game. — Paul Rabil

He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life — George Chuvalo

But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box. — Mark Twain

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass. — Randall Tex Cobb

Lie down so I can recognise you — Willie Pep

Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters. — Jessica Chastain

Gabriel Batistuta. He was a spectacular No 9 - great at finding space, shooting from outside the box, good in the air. He was always a reference for me and I used to watch the way he played. — Luis Suarez

I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. — Muhammad Ali

They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight. — Ferdie Pacheco

When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher. — Mike Tyson

People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing. — Muhammad Ali

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. — Thomas Huxley

I love vintage clothes. I have a real passion which probably comes from the days of my mum who had this great dress up box that she put all her clothes from the 60s and 70s in - platform shoes and jumpsuits and boots. — Rachel McAdams

The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done! — Seth Godin

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. — Bob Fitzsimmons

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet. — Muhammad Ali

What happened to the men's boxing is happening to the women's boxing, but not all the time. Every now and then, you get some really great fights. It's a money thing and how many people are going to buy that pay-per-view for the fights. The UFC is eventually going to go that way. — Bonnie Canino

As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired. — Oscar De La Hoya

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit. — Don King

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