Boxing Quotes and Sayings

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
– Muhammad Ali

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion’.
– Muhammad Ali

But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
– Muhammad Ali

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.
– Muhammad Ali

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
– Muhammad Ali

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
– George Foreman

We gon’ float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!
– Muhammad Ali

I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I’m the greatest thing that ever lived. I don’t have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty- two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world. I talk to God everyday. I know the real God. I shook up the world, I’m the king of the world. You must listen to me. I am the greatest! I can’t be beat!
– Muhammad Ali

Sure, there have been injuries and deaths in boxing – but none of them serious.
– Alan Minter

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
– Budd Schulberg

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.
– Gerry Cooney

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
– Georges Carpentier

I think it’s fair to say I’ve always been a boxing fan.
– Walter Hill

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.
– Amnat Ruenroeng

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it’s just like chess.
– Lennox Lewis

I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don’t spar with anyone.
– Liam Neeson

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

Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.
– Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
– Alexis Arguello

Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
– Barry McGuigan

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn’t have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
– Sugar Ray Leonard

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.
– George Foreman

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
– Al Sharpton

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

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
– Muhammad Ali

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
– Roger Kahn

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
– Barry McGuigan

I don’t promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.
– Don King

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.
– Frank Bruno