Boxing Quotes

I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end.

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.

I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.

People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.

I'm The Greatest, but only in relation to fighting.

Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.

I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I’ve never forgotten it.

While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in history / Now his heart can express him well / Joe Frazier was a silent warrior / whom Ali silently admired / One could not rise without the other

Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.

The word had spread and people were piling around us. But then very suddenly, Sonny Liston froze me with that look of his. He said real quiet, 'Let's go on over here.' And he led the way to a table and the people hung back. I ain't going to lie. This was the only time since I have known Sonny Liston that he really scared me.

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

My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice.

I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

I'm the fastest thing on two feet.

Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.

I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.

I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

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

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.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

Hittin' hard don't mean nothing if you don't find nothin' to hit.

Stay away from the ropes

Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock

I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!

My objective is to destroy anybody over 200 pounds, in the ring or out.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.

There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions.

Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.

My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.

You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.

When my title was taken away boxing died.

I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.

A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.

I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.

In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away

He's too ugly to be the champ!

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.