Boxing quotes

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◆ Life is similar to a boxing ring, you are declared a loser not when you fall but when you refuse to stand up...

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◆ There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.

- Larry Merchant99

◆ You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

- Muhammad Ali99

◆ I liked that title. I didn't want to lose it to anybody, but if I had to lose it, I'm glad I lost it to you. You're a good fighter and gonna be a great champ.

- Jersey Joe Walcott99

◆ It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.

- James J Braddock99

◆ Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

- Roger Kahn99

◆ 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.'

- Mike Tyson99

◆ Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

- Muhammad Ali99

◆ To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other

- Jack Handy99

◆ Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

- Joe Louis99

◆ Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

- Roberto Duran99

◆ I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

- Jack Johnson99

◆ Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

- George Foreman99

◆ 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.

- Muhammad Ali99

◆ The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

- George Foreman99