The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.
A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.
Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.
We need to get more people watching boxing. I love this sport and anything we can do to help it is great.
Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area. . . I aimed for his ear. . . I wanted to bust his eardrum. . . Every punch had bad intentions. . . My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken. . . I want to live forever. . . I refuse to lose. . . I would have to be carried out dead to lose. . . I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done.
With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!
I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.
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.
When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.
I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.
I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.
Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.
That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.
I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
You're talkin' legit here.
I have read articles. I don't need to go out there and keep saying it. The people that 'know boxing. ' Everybody is out there saying it. But that's OK. I am going to go out there and shut everybody up.
Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish
I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go. '
I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.
Dempsey could beat anybody he could hit. The only reason that he couldn't do anything with fellows like Tunney or Greb or myself was he couldn't hit us.