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The match would have to be made at 165 pounds. Sean can't make 160 any more, even though he's drinking lite beer these days
— Angelo Dundee
There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.
— Don King
I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
— Aimee Mann
A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.
— Evander Holyfield
I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York
— David Wright
Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end.
— Mitch Hedberg
I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required.
— Maxim Kuznetsov
It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in.
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.
— Jack Newfield
I took up boxing as a fitness thing. I got obsessed, and I would go every day when I wasn't working. It's just an insane sport when you get into it.
— Lena Headey
The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.'
— George Foreman
You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?
— Don King
The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.
— Curtis Jackson
On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!'
— Jake LaMotta
I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.
— Don King
What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?
— Billy Conn
King's an equal opportunity dirtbag, he screws everybody.
— Michael Spinks
Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.
— Muhammad Ali
Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.
— Sugar Ray Robinson
That's all they said was wrong with me?
— Mike Tyson
I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.
— Steven Yeun
If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.
— Randall "Tex" Cobb
Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.
— George Foreman
My favorite was going as a boxer when I was 9 years old and wearing my dad's boxing gear.
— John Molina Jr.
I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.
— Wilbur Smith
It's hard to get up at 6am when you're wearing silk pyjamas.
— Marvin Hagler
I've never boxed before in my life. I've had one day's training at a boxing gym, and it's an incredibly difficult sport.
— Rupert Penry-Jones
All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
— Jack Dempsey
Boxing great Mike Tyson said "a happy fighter is a dangerous fighter." I think he's right.
— Ronda Rousey
Training's training; boxing's boxing. Everyone does the same kind of stuff: they spar, they train, they do whatever they do to prepare for fights.
— Tyson Fury
With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.
— Nonito Donaire
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
Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.
— Sylvester Stallone
Boxing is a place where, if you haven't done the training, that's going to be exposed very quickly.
— Holt McCallany
I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.
— Mike Tyson
I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.
— Walter Hill
That's okay, I'm still the Greatest.
— Muhammad Ali
As long as there's this welfare state of ours we're not going to have any good fighters
— Tommy Farr
When I had a boxing match, all I wanted to do was put the guy on his back. That's why I chose to chase after MMA.
— Jake Hecht
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
— Muhammad Ali
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
There's nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.
— Christian Bale
Mayweather was already a gargoyle for our era, a gleaming hood ornament on a demented limo running one red light after another, America's id.
— Brin-Jonathan Butler
If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!
— Muhammad Ali
We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships.
— Shawn Anthony Levy
All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do
— Randall Cobb
This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.
— Bernard Hopkins
You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.
— Sugar Ray Robinson
I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.
— Shayne Ward
If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.
— Marvin Hagler
In the same way I have always regarded boxing as a first-class sport to encourage in the Young Men's Christian Association.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches.
— Don Roff
If he's not dead, it doesn't count.
— Mike Tyson
Boxing is your father's sport.
— Dana White
See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.
— Alexis Arguello
It's all about one split-second. Boxing is a funny thing. You blink your eyes and somebody says good night to you.
— Kostya Tszyu
To me, boxing isn't about the other person. It's about me. My inner struggles. It works for me.
— Aleks Paunovic
Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.
— Larry Holmes
Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.
— Mike Tyson
How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work
— Tyrell Biggs
Sugar Ray wouldn't give me a rematch, and that's the reason I walked away from boxing.
— Marvin Hagler
I took another punch for the parrots. It's like boxing with the sun. Just watch the sparks FLY!!!
— Jes Fuhrmann
There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
I do believe he's the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he's one of the greatest men I've ever met.
— George Foreman
Demands for healthy food choices were like New Year's resolutions. Top priority on Boxing Day, forgotten with time to spare for Valentine's chocolate.
— Richard A. Lovett
The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.
— Manny Pacquiao
Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?
— Alan Cooper
You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem.
— Angelo Dundee
Boxing begins in illusion and ends in real blood and tears. That's what makes it so beautiful.
— Brian D'Ambrosio
Boxing's given me the chance to travel around the world and open the door and the world is much brighter.
— Vitali Klitschko
People think that boxing is all about how hard you can hit your opponent. It's not. Boxing is about how hard a hit you can take and keep going.
— Justin Trudeau
Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten
— Joe Louis
The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.
— Evander Holyfield
Boxing has been great for me because it's, like, my new sport, so it's something that I can get better at.
— Gigi Hadid
Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
— Lennox Lewis
On the perfect night there is nothing more transcendent or terrifying than boxing. It's the ultimate representation of the guilty pleasure.
— Brian D'Ambrosio
Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.
— Manny Pacquiao
There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.
— Billy Joe Saunders
I can only see it going one way, that's my way. How it's actually going to go I can't really say.
— Nicky Wilshire
Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.
— Harry Carpenter