Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.
I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.
Patience is a part of boxing. After I had missed out on the Olympic gold medal in 1984, a lot of people tried to talk me into turning professional quickly to make money. They told me that the next Olympics in Seoul would be boycotted again, that I was wasting my life, blah blah. But I still had unfinished business. I wanted the gold medal, and I got it in 88. Only then was I ready to turn professional.
The key to anything in boxing and life is sticking to it. Never give up.
And we have a new era in boxing!
Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
Will be a divine fight, a holy war. . . Armageddon on a miniature scale.
I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.
There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.
I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.
When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.
He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
The part that sickens me about boxing is guys fight their whole careers and they have nothing to show for it. That's not going to be my testimony. When it's time to get out of the game, I want to be able to walk away. I'm not going to jeopardize my health. I will have no problems walking away.
Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time.
He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said. . . I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time.
On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.
I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. Its always been a part of me.