Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Tyson

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.

Mike Tyson

He was crying in there, making woman gestures.

Mike Tyson

When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.

Mike Tyson

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

Shayne Ward

I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.

Marlen Esparza

I sometimes say I am in a relationship with boxing,

Morley Callaghan

I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.

I guess for us the season started on that Boxing Day when we found out that Troy was missing, and then on the 28th we found out that he was dead,

Frank Warren

The fight for me which encapsulates all what boxing is about is when Benn fought McClellan,

Larry Holmes

Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and all those guys. Because they were older than me and I was doing my thing.

Larry Holmes

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps

Brad Jacobs

A lot of local people. Doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs. Everyone from all walks of life who seemingly have an interest. ... Usually, in any boxing event, the highest tickets go first and the lowest tickets go, then everywhere in between. This event, everything went and kept going.

Manny Pacquiao

In boxing, you never know who you're going to face in the ring.

Manny Pacquiao

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.

Manny Pacquiao

Boxing is not for killing each other.

Tom Jones

The first quarter was like a boxing match, with a big punch here, and a punch there.

George Foreman

In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didnt have any fear. I thought, This is easy. This is what Ive been waiting for. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.

George Foreman

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

George Foreman

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

George Foreman

The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

George Foreman

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

George Foreman

There ain't nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in your mouthpiece. Five seconds to go, the boom! The bell. It's more exciting than looking down a cliff.

Jon Bernthal

I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.

John Boyle O'Reilly

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.

These games are like boxing matches sometimes with give and take. We had a stretch there that was a dogfight, but we had the patience to work through it and Kayla played a phenomenal game.

Sophia Bush

I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.

Thomas Hearns

In boxing, everybody has their favorites.

Ricky Hatton

If there was such a thing as re-incarnation, Floyd would come back as himself

But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.

Rod Taylor

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

Walter Hill

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

Wilson Mizner

Count 10 over him - he'll get up

Kelly Rowland

I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.