Great Boxing Quotes

• A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

  Jack Dempsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

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• To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

  Sugar Ray Robinson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Oct 31, 2012

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• I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

  Muhammad Ali

  Positive, Motivational Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Dec 08, 2010

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• I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2011

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• Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Beauty, Sports

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011

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• If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Sports

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2010

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strength, Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2014

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• Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Sports, Determination

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 10, 2014

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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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• Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

  Billie Jean King

  Badass, Women, 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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• The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

  Cus D'Amato

  Running, Motivational Sports, Attitude

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• If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

  Randall "Tex" Cobb

  Sports, Boxing, Tennis

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• He can run, but he can't hide.

  Joe Louis

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 20 June 1946.

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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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• I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

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

  Joe Louis

  Motivational, Sports, Boxing

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• There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

  Marvin Hagler

  Sports, Media, Order

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• If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hilarious, Dream, Love Yourself

  Twitter post from Sep 16, 2010

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• 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

  Motivational, Success, Dance

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 17, 2014

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• It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Motivational, Believe

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2010

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