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Boxing Quotes

I’m just after getting off the phone with Daniel Kinahan. He’s just informed me that the biggest fight in British boxing history has just been agreed.

– Tyson Fury

British boxer thanking Irish gangster and mob boss Kinahan, who was attempting to re-brand himself as a boxing promoter. “A big shout-out to Dan,” Fury said.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

– Georges Carpentier

I don’t like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, though, so if I can go to the gym and box for 30 minutes, I will.

– Hailey Baldwin

I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time – I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked.

– Holly Holm

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

– Gerald McRaney

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

– Joseph Barbera

Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

– Irwin Winkler

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

– Joyce Carol Oates

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

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

– Jack Dempsey

I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.

– Jill Scott

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

– John Barrymore

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

– John Cusack

What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher.

– John McEnroe

Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.

– Joyce Carol Oates

I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.

– Irina Shayk

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

– Joe Louis

I’m training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I’m preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.

– Canelo Alvarez

I love boxing and keep doing it because I love it.

– Ariane Fortin

There’s so much pressure on becoming the next Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, and if you don’t achieve that in boxing, you’re nothing.

– Anthony Joshua

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

– Barry McGuigan

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

– Al Sharpton

When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.

– Canelo Alvarez

There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both.

– Canelo Alvarez

My goal in boxing is to be the best.

– Canelo Alvarez

I’m not really a gambler, but I’ll bet on the Super Bowl or some boxing. Something I feel comfortable with.

– Birdman

Trejo is one of the oldest boxing gyms in Cuba; it’s outdoor, and every great champion the country has produced has passed through and was forged in the open air.

– Brin-Jonathan Butler

You have to be super focused when you’re boxing. After I’ve done a few rounds, I feel as if I can conquer the world.

– Ciara

Punching your weight is one of boxing’s most sensible rules. It’s a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.

– Brin-Jonathan Butler

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

– Billy Joe Saunders

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