Quotes: Boxing

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it’s better to give than to receive.

All the time he’s boxing, he’s thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

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

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

I’ve always wanted to do a boxing movie.