"Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green."
Read quote
6 likes
Boxing quotes
Boxing
743 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Boxing
Browse quotes that often appear alongside boxing — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Boxing quotes (page 7 of 38)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it."
Read quote
6 likes
"My way of joking is to tell the truth"
Read quote
6 likes
"Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other."
Read quote
6 likes
"In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved"
Read quote
6 likes
"At noon I get to the gym to do my boxing workout. Three hours there. Rest. Once in a while I get a massage, because I need it once in while."
Read quote
6 likes
"I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right."
Read quote
6 likes
"I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well."
Read quote
6 likes
"Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter."
Read quote
6 likes
"Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me"
Read quote
6 likes
"I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time."
Read quote
6 likes
"I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire."
Read quote
6 likes
"I just did what I did in my era, basically because of my admiration for the guys who came before me. That's how I've always looked at it. I never thought of boxing like, I'm going to be the greatest fighter ever and make a lot of money. Instead, I thought I was going to win because I learned from the best. I carefully studied the videotapes of all the fighters from the past, dissected their styles, and entered the ring with their spirit."
Read quote
6 likes
"I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened."
Read quote
6 likes
"I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian."
Read quote
6 likes
"Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry."
Read quote
6 likes
"I think I'll take a bath in his blood."
Read quote
6 likes
"I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid?"
Read quote
6 likes
"One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history.'"
Read quote
6 likes
"My power is discombobulatingly devastating."
Read quote
6 likes