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

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

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.
Gerry Cooney

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

And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.
Alicia Keys

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

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
Budd Schulberg

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

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
Georges Carpentier

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

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

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

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce Carol Oates

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

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

Boxing is just show business with blood.
Bruno Frank

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

Boxing is show-business with blood.
David Belasco

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Roger Kahn

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