Boxing Quotes: Inspiring Words from the World of the Sweet Science

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing"

"Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today"

"Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something"

John Cusack, Actor

"All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on"

Gerry Cooney, Athlete

"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it"

George Foreman, Athlete

"I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won"

George Foreman, Athlete

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

John Barrymore, Actor

"I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"When I'm boxing, if my career isn't going well, at least I feel mentally and physically strong"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"The third man in the ring makes boxing possible"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"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"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"Boxing has become America's tragic theater"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing"

Gene Tunney, Athlete

"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book"

Joe Frazier, Athlete

"It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment"

Jimmy Smits, Actor

"My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons"

Gene Tunney, Athlete

"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"

Gene Tunney, Athlete

"Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly"

Gene Tunney, Athlete

"I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh"

Gerry Cooney, Athlete

"But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid"

Robert Goulet, Musician

"Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics"

Gerry Cooney, Athlete

"You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing"

Gerry Cooney, Athlete

"But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed"

Roger Kahn, Writer

"Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor"

Walter Hill, Director

"I've always wanted to do a boxing movie"

Walter Hill, Director

"I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan"

Walter Hill, Director

"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood"

Billy Joel, Musician

"The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks"

Omar Epps, Actor

"I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things"

Danny DeVito, Actor

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