Great Boxing Quotes

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

I want your heart, I want to eat your children.

I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.

He can run, but he can't hide.

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

Lie down so I can recognise you

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight.

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

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

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.

A champion shows who he is by what he does.

There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like 'Raging Bull', 'Rocky', 'The Set Up', 'Fat City and Hard Times'. I just loved those films.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

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.

He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

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

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

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.

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

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.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.