76 Sparring Quotes
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Famous Sparring Quotes
Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously. — Bruce Lee
MMA guys, we sparred a lot of them training for KSI because of the wild punches. — Logan Paul
Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving! — John Cena
Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in. — Brian Owen
Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you. — Mike Tyson
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
You've got to learn to utilize the space (between you and your opponent). Distancing is very important. — Masaaki Hatsumi
You can only watch training for so long. At a certain point you need to dive in the water. You need to step in the ring and get punched in the face. — Alex Hormozi
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one. — Gene Tunney
Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don’t want to waste time on drama beforehand. — Holly Holm
When you enter a fight, be prepared for anything—your opponent may surprise you with something unexpected. — Joe Rogan
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
Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight. — Sugar Ray Robinson
Train hard and stay focused: there are no shortcuts to success in fighting or any other sport. — Joe Rogan
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won. — Muhammad Ali
Short Sparring Quotes
- You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. — Walt Schmidt
- When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip. — 50 Cent
- I am always in the gym sparring. I look at every fight kind of like a sparring match. — Chris Weidman
- Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another. — John Gay
- No author ever spar'd a brother. — John Gay
- A penny spar'd is twice got. — George Herbert
- I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with. — George Michael
- We are able to spar intellectually one moment and then grab beers together in the next. — Cliff Lerner
Sparring Partner Quotes
Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations. — Larry Holmes
I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked. — Alexis Arguello
It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners. — Jim Elliot
I had the greatest sparring partners, I had the greatest sparring team. And these guys they wrapped me up a lot. I never got the chance to get off on them. — Michael Spinks
I will knock out Vernon Forrest in two rounds whether I have a cigarette or not. I know a lot of people want to see me fight more rounds. So, if HBO wants, they can pick two sparring partners for me to fight after I knock out Forrest. That way, the audience can see me fight 12 rounds. — Ricardo Mayorga
When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of his work with me he cannot play as much chess as he wants. He more or less gave up his playing career. — Boris Gelfand
I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners. — Marlen Esparza
I got it made the rest of my life, financially and in every other way. There's nobody in the world like me. I'm getting out just in time. If I was twenty seven, I could still kick ass. I don't have to beat Holmes. Why? I raised him, he worked three years as a sparring partner for me. — Muhammad Ali
People Writing About Sparring
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 Muhammad Ali |
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 Joe Rogan |
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 John Gay |
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 Bruce Lee |
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 Logan Paul |
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 John Cena |
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More Sparring Quotes
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love competition you know. I love competition like sparring, grappling, like even if we run, I enjoy competition. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists. — Ben Bradlee
The one thing I can't get enough of is boxing. I love sparring in the ring or just doing the training, and it's easily one of the most effective ways of keeping off fat. — Matthew Hussey
Good cardio helps in any athletic practice, but in jujitsu, it has been very helpful late in a sparring session where a long roll starts to take its toll on your cardio. — Andy Lally
A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination. — Ishmael Reed
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else. — Joe Rogan
When you know yourself that you've come through preparation injury free and you've done everything, you've done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence. — Joe Calzaghe
I am made Hand of the King which gives me an enormous amount of power, which I use quite ruthlessly - but skilfully - and Dame Diana Rigg joins us [playing political mastermind the Queen of Thorns] and we have a couple of really good sparring moments. — Charles Dance
I train twice a day and I make sure I eat right. I'm an avid tea drinker and I enjoy the benefits of drinking MateFit. It gives me energy, speeds up my metabolism and helps me shed excess water weight. I also do everything from MMA sparring to strength and conditioning. I make sure to do a combination of different things with my training. — Miesha Tate
Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge. — Erik Erikson
The top fighters spar hard. They're really sparring for two reasons: One is to improve their technique, but the other, which is just as important, is to build endurance, toughness, and courage. They want to practice as realistically as possible so that when they go into a real fight, the transition isn't as jarring. — Jonathan Gottschall
I'm based in Stockholm and I train at Nexus Fighter Centre, it's my club and my head coach Andreas Michael but for two weeks now I went to Vegas to train with Team Alliance with coach Eric Del Fierro, Phil Davis and top level guys. I had top level sparring so I'm more than ready. — Alexander Gustafsson
Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
I run, but boxing conditioning is different, so you have to get used to running in the ring. Boxing movements are very different. Swimming is one of the best because every single muscle is working. I swim a lot. I train very hard at things that mimic boxing. I have to do mostly sport-specific training, such as lots of sparring. — Wladimir Klitschko
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
If you look after yourself, keep yourself healthy and have good sparring, there shouldn't be any issues regarding ring rust. — David Haye
I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits. — Aeschylus
In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand clear of him, but then I've never been a slave to good judgment. — Janet Evanovich
A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing. — Victoria Wood
When I was fighting Tyrell Biggs, Tyson was telling me at ringside to hit him to the ribs. We always had a mutual respect for each other since we sparred those early times. We got that over with. — Lennox Lewis
I've got a couple of things over [ Wladimir Klitschko]: He wouldn't spar with me when I went to the camp and I beat him in a mental toughness competition in the sauna. — Tyson Fury
You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop. — P. G. Wodehouse
Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That's why they don't have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they're limiting movement. — Conor McGregor
People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I've trained that way, I've actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn't come. It's almost because my training has been too hard. — Conor McGregor
I can be the nice family man at home, and then when I go to the gym, maybe sparring with someone, I switch into beast mode. It ain't pretty. — Anthony Joshua
Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer. — Irvine Welsh
I spar with 18-year-old kids that try to kick my ass all the time. As far as going in and doing a wrestling match, I think that pales in comparison, but it's a totally different thing. It's completely different. You have to condition your body. — Bill Goldberg
I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training! — Rick Moody
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