Boxing

Midshipmen and cadets remain stronger and more aggressive than their male counterparts at civilian schools. They eagerly play sports such as rugby, boxing, karate, lacrosse, and football. They drive fast cars, usually sports cars. They play hard. They drink hard. They are physical, often abusive among each other. They are not trying to prove their manhood they are celebrating their masculinity. They are competitive, often vulgar, and tough, and every citizen who may someday send a friend or relative into war should rejoice, because combat is competitive, vulgar, and tough, and they will be leading men in combat.

- James Webb Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a second helping.

- Fred Mitchell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm not going to keep boxing. It's part of my past and now I want to live my life.

- Mike Tyson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Memphis has illustrated clearly that it is a boxing town and the FedEx Forum is one of the finest arenas in the country. We look forward to the Southern hospitality in June.

- Lou DiBella Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The part that sickens me about boxing is guys fight their whole careers and they have nothing to show for it. That's not going to be my testimony. When it's time to get out of the game, I want to be able to walk away. I'm not going to jeopardize my health. I will have no problems walking away.

- Andre Ward Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This is going to be a great and exciting event, not only for boxing fans, but for me personally, because I get to fight alongside two of my Olympic teammates, Andre Dirrell and Devin Vargas. I'm looking forward to putting on a spectacular performance in front of my hometown crowd and then letting the fans get an up close and personal look of Andre and Devin, just like we did in Athens.

- Andre Ward Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Political disputes should be decided with two pairs of boxing gloves and a ring.

- Greg Evans Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Tony will continue to referee major fights. We usually change officials (for rematches). Boxing is a tough sport, and we're saddened because what happened with Johnson was a horrible situation.

- Marc Ratner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In 2003, the South African adopted a regimen of twice-daily workouts to improve his fitness. His game improved significantly ... until he hurt his right wrist walloping a boxing heavy bag. 'I was thinking of taking out a little frustration on the punching bag, but I'm not a pro,' he said.

- Ernie Els Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He was a tough guy. I hit him with everything, ... I knew the guy was quick. I knew boxing would be the key because he was so fast.

- Erik Morales Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

James was, and is, very proud of his skills. He's so intelligent, he loves to fight most guys today in boxing don't love to fight. They fight to get the money. James loves to be in the ring that's where he feels the most comfortable. So there was always pressure on us when he was fighting for us to get him a fight, even if it was a low money fight.

- Bob Arum Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

- Muhammad Ali Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Boxing out is the most important part of rebounding. You had to make sure your competitor is behind you and then go after the ball.

- Edwina Ashe Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

- Omar Epps Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Boxing is a technical sport and a number of countries are getting technical. The Indian team in Glasgow brought their Cuban coach along and he was helpful to them because he knew Reno and how Reno fights. These are the adjustments that we need to make. We need technical help and there is no way to escape that, and it has to come from the Bahamas Olympic Association and the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture through the government.

- Andre Seymour Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.

- Gerry Cooney Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

- Frank Bruno Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's getting bigger and bigger (Boxing Day) because of the gift card phenomenon. It's a no-brainer as a gift, you just give 50 on a gift card and then the person can zip out and get what they want.

- John Winter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I am a fair fighter, and I want to fight fair. If you can beat me, hey, I'll be the first to shake your hand but don't cheat me. Don't take what I worked so hard for if you don't deserve it. It really hurt me that they tried to do that to me. I hope every boxing fan in the world sees what that referee tried to do to me and if they do I think he'll never be allowed near a boxing ring again. He has no place in the boxing game.

- Lamon Brewster Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

More than anything it has been mentally draining. Mentally it has been a struggle. This business side of boxing is horrible. It has taken my best years of boxing. If I had been very active this past two or three years, you would have seen some great fights.

- Chris Byrd Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Fame is a lot of fun. Fame gets you to boxing matches, football games and cool stuff.

- Dale Jr Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

- Al Sharpton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Marvin Hagler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

- Frank Bruno Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Me and Ann just came in and said the obvious things. We have to take more pride in boxing out. We have to take more pride in knowing who we are guarding and rotating on defense. We have to know what we are doing out there, and in that first half we didn't look like it at all.

- Barbara Turner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes