Boxer Quotes

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

I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad

I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see.

When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.

I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.

Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.

March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn't die, it doesn't count. If he's not dead, it doesn't count.

I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.

If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.

I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.

I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.

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.

Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'.

A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em

Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

I'm the best fighter in the world. No one can beat me....My objective is to inflict as much pain as possible, to win and win spectacularly...Ever since I was 12 years old, I was groomed to be the heavyweight champion of the world. I've been prepared to handle the pressure, the dealing with the press, everything.

I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

Discipline makes hard men. Every hard man is capable of being a killer. But every killer is not capable of being a hard man. They can't endure that much. It's all about the endurance. That's why they become killers. Because they can't endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it.

Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

My power is discombobulatingly devastating.

Islam religion has no color distinction, we are just Muslims.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.

I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like

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 don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.

Five heads are definitely better than one when they're thinking in the same perspective. I think that you really need to have people that you trust. And for me, trust comes from that synchronizing, that same-mindedness.

I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.

True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.

People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

It's not bragging if you can back it up.

I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I'm the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That's what made my knockouts always seem spectacular.

I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid?

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

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace.

One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.

I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.

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

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

I fight for perfection