Boxing Matches Quotes:

I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

- Markus Zusak

topic: Brother, People, Boxing, Boxing Matches

Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house.

- Sharon Horgan

source: "I've devised a game for bland celebrity interviews: swap one star's questions with another's answers" by Sharon Horgan, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2008.

topic: Boxing, House, Cracks, Royal Wedding, Boxing Matches

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

- Muhammad Ali

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Determination, Champions Are Made, Play To Win

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

- Sonny Liston

topic: Cowboy, People, Boxing, Cowboy Movie, Great Boxing

But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.

- Roone Arledge

topic: People, Boxing, News, Boxing Matches

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

- John Cusack

topic: New York, Boxing, Hollywood, Boxing Matches

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

- George Foreman

topic: Boxing, Shapes, Fighter, Boxing Matches

Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.

- Evander Holyfield

topic: Mistake, Boxing, Dancing, Boxing Matches

and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Love Again, Luck And Skill, Boxing Matches, Words You Speak

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

- Wladimir Klitschko

source: Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

topic: Winning, Talking, Boxing, Mental Strength, Win Or Lose

I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.

- Don King

topic: People, Boxing, Together, Boxing Matches

I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Party, Dirty, Sleep, Movie Theatre, Boxing Matches

People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

- George Foreman

topic: Hurt, People, Boxing, Boxing Matches

Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together as wings go with air, roots with earth, and the phoenix with incendiary sun. And innocence belongs to us as it did to ancient Greek athletes, who never wore clothes for their footraces or boxing matches but rather oiled themselves until their nude bodies glistened in the sunlight.

- Janet Lembke

topic: Children, Athlete, Thinking, Squealing, Bare Skin

People abhor boxing, and I agree, but I admire men and women who can stand in a ring like that, nowhere to hide. I've only been to a couple of boxing matches, and they're different from any other event. I'm not there to see blood; I'm there for the heart of someone being able to get up and keep going. And for the respect that's often there in the end.

- Markus Zusak

topic: Couple, Heart, Men, Boxing Matches

I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end.

- Mitch Hedberg

topic: Funny, Humor, Fighting, Boxing Matches

That's right, Mitt Romney took on Evander Holyfield in a boxing match for charity, and it was a pretty one-sided fight. But it was still not the worst boxing match we've seen this month. This weekend Vladimir Putin played in an exhibition hockey game with some former NHL players and scored eight goals. Even Evander Holyfield and Mitt Romney said, 'That looks fake.'

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Hockey, Fighting, Weekend, Boxing Matches, One Sided

During a charity boxing match on Friday, Mitt Romney lasted two rounds against Evander Holyfield and raised a million dollars. It was just like Holyfield's fight with Mike Tyson, except Romney chewed off his other ear talking about his 18 grandchildren.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Friday, Fighting, Grandchildren, Boxing Matches

Mitt Romney announced he will fight former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in a charity boxing match. You can tell that Romney is serious about it. Today, his butler gave him a piggyback ride up the steps of the Philadelphia art museum.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Art, Fighting, Museums, Boxing Matches

Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing. That's what's great about the choreography that goes on here. It's a delicate ballet with a fist in the face.

- David Lyons

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Mean, Fighting, Boxing, Boxing Matches

I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20. I never watched a boxing match life in my life. The only boxer I had ever heard of was Muhammad Ali.

- Jeff Fenech

source: Source: fitefansho.blogspot.com

topic: Boxing, Champion, Half, Boxing Matches

When I had a boxing match, all I wanted to do was put the guy on his back. That's why I chose to chase after MMA.

- Jake Hecht

source: Source: bleacherreport.com

topic: Mma, Boxing, Guy, Boxing Matches

The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.

- Chrissie Hynde

topic: Nice, Princess, Unique, Suburbs, Ducklings

Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana.

- Richard Rodriguez

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Cities, Two, Gambling, Alter Ego, San Diego

When I was a kid I got mad enough to want to kill somebody but as you travel the world and I'm struggling with a freedom fight against nations, you can't get enough hate in you to be mad at one man just because it's a boxing match. Never. Even Floyd Paterson, who condemned my Islamic religion and didn't want to call me Muhammad Ali and said I should've gone to the army and I should be in jail.

- Muhammad Ali

source: "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

topic: Hate, Islamic, Struggle, Boxing Matches

I'm not the most athletic gal, but because making a movie is very physical, I slow down on the Krispy Kreme and Ice Blendeds. I start to get leaner and more focused - like I'm going into a boxing match - because I'm about to really try to put this idea on its feet.

- Ava DuVernay

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Ice, Ideas, Krispy Kreme, Gals, Boxing Matches

British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Games, Boxing, Hitting, Allusion, Boxing Matches

In a boxing match, the fighters absorb some vicious blows because they’re ready for them. And usually, the knockout punch is the one they didn’t see coming.

- Todd Burpo

source: Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Blow, Boxing, Fighter, Knockouts, Boxing Matches

My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.

- Teri Polo

source: "Teri Polo: Teri on a Tear". Interview with Dennis Hensley, movieline.com. September 1, 2001.

topic: Husband, Night, Islands, Showtime, Boxing Matches

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

- David Lyons

source: "David Lyons and Summer Glau Interview THE CAPE". Interview, collider.com. January 17, 2011.

topic: Fighting, Boxing, Dancing, Boxing Matches

The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.

- Bernard Hopkins

topic: Motivation, Fighting, Mma, Chad, Boxing Matches

That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.

- David Benioff

topic: War, Eye, Men, Boxing Matches

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

- Charles Bukowski

source: Charles Bukowski (2014). “Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection”, Harper Collins

topic: Drive Me Crazy, Arcades, Boxing Matches

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

topic: Boxing, Age, Demographics, Boxing Matches