Boxing Quotes

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips

Once, Computer, Beat

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali

Men, Black, Two

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali

Pilots, Astronaut, Jet

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
John Barrymore

Find, She, Missing

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

Money, Book, Brain

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Time, Yourself, Nothing

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
Jimmy Smits

End, Game, Hard

Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.
Alexis Arguello

Good, Why, Create

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.

Job, Young, Said

A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups.
Gael Garcia Bernal

Best, Lie, Down

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.
Hugh Jackman

Father, Down, Trying

I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.
Liam Neeson

Anyone, Shadow, Heavy

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Joyce Carol Oates

America, Become, Theater

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
George Foreman

Less, Appreciate, Jazz

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Life, Real, Easy

I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.
Louis C. K.

Loved, Excited, Extremely

I do actually use a boxing trainer when I train for stand-up.
Louis C. K.

Actually, Train, Trainer

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
Alexis Arguello

Today, Person, Grow

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Billy Joel

Books, Kid, York

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
Joyce Carol Oates

Pain, Feeling, Winning

I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Life, Before, Since

People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.
Morgan Freeman

Movie, Stage, Played

I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.
David Bailey

Fighting, Except, Bull

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.
Hugh Laurie

Love, Men, Feeling

I always put my boxing first.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.
Frank Bruno

Lonely, Words, Different

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
John Cusack

Movie, Hollywood, York

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

Time, Thinking, Him

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Instinct, Aggressive, Brings

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Land, Higher, Punches

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