Boxer Quotes

Muhammad Ali

Mike Tyson

Joe Frazier

George Foreman

Joe Louis

Max Schmeling

Sugar Ray Robinson

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

The man to beat me hasn't been born yet.

I was leaving the hotel to get to the fight when my phone went and someone said 'Hello Ricky, it's Tom'. I said 'Tom who?' and when he said 'Tom Jones' I told him to eff off! I thought it was a wind-up!

About Oscar de la Hoya:

He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.

While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.

I'm born in Britain – but my family were born in Pakistan. When I fight, in the crowd you see Pakistani people and you see British people – they're all mixed together and they support Amir Khan. On my shorts, when I fight, I have the Pakistani flag on one side and on the other side I have the Britain flag – to promote the two countries together.

My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.

As long as capital-both human and money-can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.

I feel in an executioner mood, I am going to punish him and punish him slowly.

Bernard Hopkins

I will not quit until I am a five-times world champion.

After defeating Lou Savarese

Evander Holyfield

It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.

I don't like Marvin. Never have and never will. I just want to tell you something. Get there early and sit tight. Don't blink. You might miss the fight.

Greb gave me a terrible whipping. My jaw was swollen from the right temple down the cheek, along the chin and part way up the other side. The referee, the ring itself, was full of my blood. If boxing was afflicted with the commission doctors that we have now, the first fight probably would have been stopped and no one would have heard of me today.

Since no welterweight or middleweight will fight me I am compelled to go to the next class. Will any heavyweights fight me?

The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.

Bob Fitzsimmons

MR BROWN You know that the policy in Iraq cannot succeed. Democracy cannot be exported with a gun. You can be the Great Leader and the Great Peacemaker

I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

I respect Floyd as a fighter but come 5 May, he's going to be hurting for weeks.

Oscar De La Hoya

It would give me a terrific sense of satisfaction to be the man who sent both Eubank and Benn into retirement. Benn doesn't need me to tell him that he's over the hill because, deep down, he knows it.

Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

I watched a TV documentary about how animals are farmed, killed and prepared for us to eat. I saw all those cows and pigs and realised I couldn't be a part of it any more. It was horrible. I did some research to make sure I could still obtain enough protein to fight and, once satisfied that I could, I stopped [eating animal products]. I'll never go back.

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost