Boxing Quotes
On the discipline and legacy built inside the ring.
This page gathers quotes from boxers on how the sport was passed down to them, often through a father or an early coach who taught fundamentals and discipline. Several reflect on boxing as a passion that runs alongside other interests, and on the drive to leave a lasting name in the sport. Continue with Fight quotes.
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.
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I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
They don't show Olympic boxing on TV in prime time. They haven't done that since 1988. In 1992, they showed one: Oscar De La Hoya. In 1996, they didn't show it. In 2000, they didn't show it. In 2004, they...
I'm a boxing fan. I've seen Kell Brook fight. I'm not one of those boxers who says he doesn't watch other guys fight or follow the sport. I do.
It's really important to have role models, and a lot of the ancients always talked about this. Seneca talked about this, Aristotle talked about this, and in fact, this was my boxing coach's philosophy in college, was that you have...
When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.
I have a boxing trainer at a gym, which is really fun. And I also try to complement it with flybarre, which is lengthening, strengthening, toning, just tightening everything up.
I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.
When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.
I don't watch TV dramas. I watch ESPN, HBO boxing, National Geographic Channel and I kind of like to get some DVDs, movies that I haven't seen and I just pop them in.
I quite like thai boxing. But then I'm not surprised because I did taekwondo and karate and judo and all of that when I was a kid, and then just stopped when I got a bit older.
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The recurring idea is that boxing rewards patience and structure long before it rewards talent. See also Gym quotes for more on training culture.
