Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sugar Ray Leonard

I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.

George Foreman

We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody's gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.

I ended up chasing them down the stairs. I was in my boxers chasing them with a golf club.

I feel like this was a boxing match where one of the boxers does all the training and lifting weights while the other fighter just waits until the day of the fight and gets a lucky punch. I don't feel like they won this game. I feel like we gave it to them. We played well for 39 minutes and gave it away in the last minute.

Joe Calzaghe

I have been waiting eight years for this fight and I can't wait. It is the sort of fight all boxers dream of and I cannot wait to unify the titles.

Clint Eastwood

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has

Frank Warren

We look forward to continuing to promote these great young boxers managed by Frank and continuing our close relationship. We wish Frank all success in the pursuit of his private interest in the world of boxing.

Weld is an established guy and he's got credentials. He's got what boxers call a puncher's chance in this.

Yoko Ono

People always portrayed us as enemies, like two boxers on opposite sides of the ring, but of course it was never really like that,

Laila Ali

People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.

Pat Barry

You know how boxers have training facilities with treadmills, weights, etc.? This was the same, but for dogs.

Victor Ortiz

When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.

We have exceptional talent, even in the Family Islands but we have to go in there with something new. The local coaches could only take us so far. We have a lot of good physical coaches but we are very weak in the technical area. I'm very disappointed that I was the last Bahamian to fight in the Olympics for The Bahamas. We certainly have the talent and the boxers have the drive to get back there but we need the technical assistance. Winning Caribbean Championships is not enough. We have to win the big one to help us prepare for the Olympics.

Jimmy Smits

There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.

There will be some very good contests this year. There are a lot of good boxers back from last year.

It was like two boxers going after each other. We finally settled down and our confidence got better.

Evander Holyfield

From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.

Mickey Rourke

Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps.

If he's wanting to ambush the police ... I doubt he would come out in his boxers and run down the stairway without any cover. Does that make any sense to you all?

Mickey Kaus

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

Muhammad Ali

Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer

Olivier Martinez

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

George Foreman

A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.

Richelle Mead

He was almost naked too, but I hadn't quite gotten to his boxers yet. (They were silk because, honestly what else would Adrian wear?)

Robert Harris

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

Liam Neeson

You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.

Lennox Lewis

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

T. S. Eliot

I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.