84 Heavyweight Quotes

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Famous Heavyweight Quotes

If you are not comortable to deal with an opponent 50 lbs heavier than you, there is something wrong with your Jiu Jitsu. — Rickson Gracie

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world. - Joe Louis

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world. — Joe Louis

Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, and the next heavyweight championship of the world! — Scott Steiner

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? — Rocky Marciano

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight. — Ronnie Coleman

I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy. — Ronnie Coleman

Wimps lift Weights, Cheerleaders lift People — Stephanie

BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know. - Donny Robinson

BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know. — Donny Robinson

When you start to treat the light weights like heavy weights, the heavy weights will go up a lot easier. — Ed Coan

At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if you don't look that big then you don't look that big. — Dorian Yates

One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is. — Jason Statham

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. — Carlos Castaneda

Train hard, fight easy. — Alexander Suvorov

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness. - Isamu Noguchi

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness. — Isamu Noguchi

To have an opportunity to fight for the title, you have to prove you deserve it against top opponents. — Valentina Shevchenko

Short Heavyweight Quotes

  • At the end of the day, when you're dealing with heavyweights who can punch, anything is possible. — Dana White
  • The Youngest World Heavyweight Champion in History! — Randy Orton
  • I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history. — Floyd Patterson
  • My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World. — Evander Holyfield
  • I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring. — Lennox Lewis
  • MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world. — Nelson Mandela
  • When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight — Michael Bolton
  • It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman. — Muhammad Ali
  • I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll. — Henry Rollins
  • My goal is to be the best fighter in the world, UFC Heavyweight Champion. There is no back-up plan. — Brock Lesnar

Heavyweight Image Quotes

Heavy Day Quotes

Forget the times of trouble, but not the truths they taught. Forget the days of sorrow, but not the strength they brought. Forget the storms you battled through beneath a heavy load - but not the light that led you safely down the unknown road. — Patience Strong

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. — John Newton

Lift something heavy most every day, even if it’s just your weary body up to the pullup bar a few times. — Mark Sisson

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day. — Jam Master Jay

Live your life to the fullest. - Shakira

Live your life to the fullest. — Shakira

I try to lift heavy as possible during a fast and I do so every day as a way to stimulate mTOR in the muscle and prevent muscle loss. — Peter Attia

"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with." — Brian Tracy

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary. — Erykah Badu

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. — Max Planck

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. — Max Muller

Heavyweight Championship Quotes

I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is. — Will McDonough

If I'm watching my favorite boxer, and he's just won the heavyweight championship of the world, and he retires, it kind of makes the guy a legend. — Nikki Sixx

Every fight is do or die for me. I've come too far to start over. I'm on a destiny trip right now. I'm racing towards that heavyweight world championship. — Antonio Tarver

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant. — Edward St Aubyn

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More Heavyweight Quotes

I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was. — Muhammad Ali

Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him. — Joe Frazier

But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool. — Christopher Meloni

I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with. — Sonny Rollins

You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life. — George Foreman

The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle? — Yulia Tymoshenko

Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden. — Joe Frazier

I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world. — Larry Holmes

I've been many times to Dubai and the U.A.E., and I have friends that live there. It would be exciting to stage world heavyweight championship fights in the Arab world. It's something Muhammad Ali achieved when he fought in Zaire or the Philippines. It's absolutely exciting to fight in countries where you have never fought. — Wladimir Klitschko

Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion. — Gene Tunney

The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman [David Cameron] may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist... — Gordon Brown

Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater! — Muhammad Ali

Once you get the nod, your mentality totally changes. It's like a heavyweight fighter-you win the title and that's it, you don't want to look back and you don't want to change. That's the way I feel and I'm looking to keep the job.? — Mark Sanchez

I had two ACL injuries in my life, and both of them happened when I was training with bigger guys; a heavyweight and a light heavyweight. Sometimes it's not even because the guy is good, you just get hurt. — Georges St-Pierre

It's not my place to compare myself to greats like Tyson, Frazier or men like that. But I would look at a fighter like Evander Holyfield. He's a great heavyweight who worked his way up through the weight classes to become champion and had to beat bigger men along the way. — Wladimir Klitschko

Today the biggest decisions I make aren't related to the heavyweight title. They are whether I visit McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, or Jack-in-the-Box. — George Foreman

Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian. — H. L. Mencken

The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete. — Lennox Lewis

When people are tipsy, they're really encouraged and they wanna prove they can do something to the Heavyweight champion. — Wladimir Klitschko

I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it. — Muhammad Ali

I think a fight with David Haye, even if he is not American, is going to give positive vibes about the heavyweight division for the American fans and fans worldwide. — Wladimir Klitschko

After I knock out Randy Couture, I'll fight for the heavyweight title, the real heavyweight boxing title in October or November, come back and fight in the UFC in January or February. It doesn't matter, I'm a two sport athlete. The oldest man to ever do that. — James Toney

When Don King's fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses. — Larry Holmes

That Mitt Romney, he is a master campaigner. This week he was introducing his wife, and he said, 'She is the heavyweight champion of my life.” Which may explain why on the ride home, he was strapped to the roof of the car. — Bill Maher

One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years. — Bonnie Raitt

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one. — Gerry Cooney

In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it. — Wladimir Klitschko

I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability. — Muhammad Ali

That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time. — Muhammad Ali

Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman. — Jim Bailey

Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and all those guys. Because they were older than me and I was doing my thing. — Larry Holmes

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever. — Muhammad Ali

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