Boxing Quotes

My arms are too short to box with God.

~ Johnny Cash

You don’t have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe.

~ Muhammad Ali

You know how there are words that never really—they are never really quite right. You can't quite trust them. Use them. You know. Without p

~ Emma Richler

I could not tell anymore how much of the screaming came from my own mouth. I was borne up on the swell of it, I was the sound. We were all howling together, the poor and the quality, the boxing girl and the beast inside my breast. If she was a madwoman, then we were all of us with her, and I had never felt such savage elation, nor known that it existed.

~ Anna Freeman

I always win.

~ Brittany Noel Bostic

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I'd become an uncertain creature in her mind, and I found I liked it; she couldn't fathom what else I might be doing when her eyes weren't on me.

~ Anna Freeman

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

~ Cus D'amato

He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not deserve it either, because he was letting it waste. It was getting away from him and he made no effort to stop it. He did not know how.

~ Leonard Gardner

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.

~ James Jones

Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing.

~ Anthony Liccione

Against my mouth she groaned. I hate being quiet. A breathless chuckled escaped me. Me too. Once we're home... Lots of noise.

~ Lisa Kessler

Foreboding, and an all too familiar lack of control, roiled in my gut. My opponent might be hungry for a win, but I was famished. Something in my life would be a victory. Sorry Shark, I wasn’t going down tonight. No chance. - Jason Ayers

~ Lisa Kessler

Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else. The rules forbid a tennis player from even talking to his coach while on the court. People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh. At least the runner can feel and smell his opponents. They're inches away. In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement....

~ Andre Agassi

~Have NO fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with YOU, therefore NO harm can befall YOU; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence~

~ John Paul Ii

. . . there are two types of fighters, the former strike all over the place hoping one would land, the latter, assured of their prowess and capabilities, hit once and destroy the opponent's desire to continue the fight

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

The 'Righteous' are mightier than 'God.

~ Shivish

A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.

~ Anna Freeman

Anger, hate, blind temper, that crazy switch to destroy, all of it purified into discipline and control, the best side of boxing, Billy says.

~ Adam Berlin

Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention

~ Ken Scott

Most people who watch a fight think it's all about the muscle: hitting harder, moving faster. And, yeah, sometimes it looked that way. But telling somebody that you won a fight by hitting the other person harder and more often was like telling somebody that the way you kept from drowning was by moving your arms and legs.

~ Kameron Hurley

I ain’t never had me a single round in a professional, boxin’ ring. I’m whatcha call a street fighter, a knuckle brawler. Knives, beer bottles, chairs, chains, rocks, sticks, tire irons, and even teeth. Ya name it. I’ve seen ‘em all. And I tell ya what. When it comes to fightin,’ the quickest way to double your money in a fight is to fold it over. That don’t mean ya give up or quit. It means ya work with whatcha got and whatcha know.

~ Todd Nelsen

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

~ George Foreman

As my future crumbled before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. My entire life's struggle was ending here, in plain view of my enemies. How was it possible? Had had I let things come to this?

~ Tony Mcmahon

As she began to speak she stood and started to wrap herself, expertly, creating a binding in minutes that held without a wrinkle until the show ended. Peggy made a connection between binding her breasts and wrapping her hands in boxing wraps; this was what one did before battle, to protect one's self (and it is the Self, absolutely, that binding protects for many butches).

~ S. Bear Bergman

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

~ Maya Angelou

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that’s in rhythm or you’re in trouble. Your rhythm should set the pace of the fight. If it does, then you penetrate your opponent’s rhythm. You make him fight your fight, and that’s what boxing is all about.

~ Sugar Ray Robinson

To be a professional you have to act like one as well..

~ Alcurtis Turner

If I lost all, at least I would have played for it. It had always been my philosophy that one must play, or be a loser two-fold.

~ Anna Freeman

He rested his head on top of mine and whispered, I'm warning you now. I'm a horrible patient. I smiled in spite of myself and pulled back. Of course you are. That's why you're a doctor.

~ Lisa Kessler

...the band broke into a cover of Hungry Like the Wolf. I smiled up at mine. He was sexy even in soaking wet blue jeans. Dance with me.

~ Lisa Kessler

It is not uncommon for fighters’ camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fighters are supposed to. The boredom creates an impatience with one’s life, and a violence to improve it. Boredom creates a detestation for losing.

~ Norman Mailer

Las Vegas, the most expensive toilet in the world that still can’t flush.

~ Brin-Jonathan Butler

In life and in a boxing ring, the defeat is not declared when you fall down. It is declared only when you refuse to get up

~ Manoj Arora

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

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

~ Andy Murray

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

~ Bob Verdi

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

~ Emo Philips