Later in July I’m going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who’s going to be the best. – Alexis Arguello
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
I used to drink. I didn’t like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd Mayweather never drinks – and he is the blueprint for boxing. – Anthony Joshua
Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century. – Barry McGuigan
In boxing, you get hit, it’s painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round. – Ben Horowitz
It would be hard to throw a punch to someone who wasn’t a boxer, who wasn’t in the ring, and who didn’t have on a pair of boxing gloves and who hadn’t been training. – George Foreman
My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They’re still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished. – Pierce Brosnan
I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn’t tell my family when I started boxing. – Mary Kom
Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport. – Dick Schaap
I proposed abolishing boxing because it was bad for the brain, but boxers were generally so decent that I loved being around the gyms. – George Vecsey
I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement. – George Foreman
My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense – on the order of Mike Gibbons. – Gene Tunney
What people don’t know is that I’m a blackbelt in jujitsu, which I’ve been for 20 years, and I’ve been boxing since I’ve been 15 years old – those are things that come natural to me. – Frank Grillo
When I got cast in ‘Rocky IV,’ I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie. – Dolph Lundgren
