Great Boxing Quotes

• A champion shows who he is by what he does.

  Evander Holyfield

  Motivational, Boxing, Champion

  Twitter post from Jan 2, 2017

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• Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

  George Foreman

  Motivational, Fighting, Boxing

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• Lie down so I can recognise you

  Willie Pep

  Motivational, Lying, Boxing

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• 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

  Motivational, Sports, Boxing

  FaceBook post by Evander Holyfield from May 16, 2016

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• I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

  George Foreman

  Funny, Boxing, Shadow

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• Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Artist, Boxing

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Feb 18, 2015

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• 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

  Cowboy, People, Boxing

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• I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Jobs, Grandmother, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

  Alan Minter

  Funny, Sports, Stupid

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• My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.

  Mike Tyson

  Funny, Crazy, Objectives

  2002 On Lennox Lewis. In The Independent, 20 Dec.

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• The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Greatness, Boxing

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• 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

  Funny, Fighting, Boxing

  "Jake LaMotta - a life in pictures" by Daffydd Bynon, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2017.

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• Boxing is just show business with blood.

  Frank Bruno

  Blood, Boxing, Shows

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• He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life

  George Chuvalo

  Boxing, Dancing, Bleeding

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• I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.

  Muhammad Ali

  Smart, Boxing

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• That's okay, I'm still the Greatest.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Okay, Stills

  "Muhammad Ali: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Way, Should

  Twitter post from Oct 04, 2010

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

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Sports, Boxing

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• 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

  Hurt, Careers, Boxing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want your heart, I want to eat your children.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Heart, Want

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• They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight.

  Ferdie Pacheco

  Mistake, Fighting, Boxing

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• I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Quarrels, Viet Cong

  Thomas Hauser, Muhammad Ali (1996). “Muhammad Ali in perspective”, Harpercollins

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• 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

  Sports, Moving, Heart

  "Sugar Ray" by Sugar Ray Robinson and Dave Anderson, (p. 75), March 22, 1994.

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• The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

  Bob Fitzsimmons

  Motivational, Fall, Boxing

  "Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs". Book edited by Jennifer Speake, p. 26, 2015.

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• Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

  Muhammad Ali

  Rocks, Climbing, Boxing

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