All Quotes

Boxing is individual, although there's a team concept because you need a great corner, you need a great trainer, you need a great prep man, you need all of these things, but it's more of a Mano a Mano; it's more you versus me. I miss that time in training camp and Dad and Mom cooking meals. It was one big family.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.
‐‐ Nicola Adams

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
‐‐ George Foreman

Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.
‐‐ LeRoy Neiman

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.
‐‐ Manny Pacquiao

Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It's about poise and grace under extreme pressure.
‐‐ Peter Berg

Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
‐‐ Irwin Winkler

Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

Boxing is really an art form. It might just look like two people beating each other up, but when you look closer, it's actually quite beautiful and interesting.
‐‐ Seth Numrich

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
‐‐ Roger Kahn

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.
‐‐ Canelo Alvarez

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
‐‐ Joe Frazier

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.
‐‐ Frank Bruno

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.
‐‐ Frank Bruno

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

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

Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career.
‐‐ Chris Penn

Boxing's not in my blood... it just grew on me.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.
‐‐ Sam Simon

Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
‐‐ Barry McGuigan

Boxing was a way to express my anger. All of a sudden, I was expressing anger, and I was good at it. I was like a Jekyll and Hyde. Boxing helped me because I was fighting the anger out. I was knocking guys out.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

Boxing was just another one to keep me going as a child.
‐‐ Katie Taylor

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing will always be in my life.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
‐‐ Eddie Izzard

Boy, do I got some stories to tell.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

Boy, does that give you street cred for years after, if you tell people you were on 'The Larry Sanders Show!'
‐‐ Janeane Garofalo

Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

Boy I could do this forever; I truly enjoy bad guys.
‐‐ Jonathan Banks

Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.
‐‐ Frank Darabont

Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
‐‐ Jack Youngblood

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.
‐‐ Marian McPartland

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.
‐‐ James Marsden

Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.
‐‐ Vanity

'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
‐‐ Taylor Hawkins

Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy.
‐‐ Noah Wyle

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.
‐‐ Christina Hoff Sommers

Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I'm producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.'
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

Boy, there's nothing more thrilling than a chase. I'd often thought, over the years, that someone should do a whole film where it's nothing but a chase.
‐‐ Mel Gibson

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
‐‐ Steve Martin

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.
‐‐ Michael Landon

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should be directed against an individual, a people, or a nation as such.
‐‐ John Berger

Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives.
‐‐ Anna Kournikova