Great Boxing Quotes

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

  Evander Holyfield

  Motivational, Boxing, Champion

  Twitter post from Jan 2, 2017

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

  243 Copy quote

  Show source

• Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

  Joe Frazier

  Funny, Sports, Money

  "Underdog Boxing: Pumped up for the Pacquiao-Mosley undercard fights" by Carlo L.Pamintuan, www.gmanetwork.com. February 10, 2011.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• My toughest fight was with my first wife.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Sports, Fighting

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2009.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2009

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

  Muhammad Ali

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Twitter post from Jan 07, 2011

  104 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Greatness, Boxing

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2015

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Gorillas, Killers

  31 Copy quote

• All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

  Jack Dempsey

  Funny, Thinking, Boxing

  63 Copy quote

• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Motivational, Happy Birthday

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

  81 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Men, People, Boxing

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Sep 29, 2012

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  George Foreman

  Funny, Boxing, Shadow

  51 Copy quote

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lie down so I can recognise you

  Willie Pep

  Motivational, Lying, Boxing

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  94 Copy quote

  Show source

• Boxing is just show business with blood.

  Frank Bruno

  Blood, Boxing, Shows

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Greatness, Boxing

  45 Copy quote

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

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Sports, Boxing

  29 Copy quote

• 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

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  27 Copy quote

• I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Said

  Muhammad Ali, Richard Durham (2015). “The Greatest: My Own Story”, p.116, Graymalkin Media

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Alan Minter

  Funny, Sports, Stupid

  9 Copy quote