Boxing Quotes

A lot of local people. Doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs. Everyone from all walks of life who seemingly have an interest. ... Usually, in any boxing event, the highest tickets go first and the lowest tickets go, then everywhere in between. This event, everything went and kept going. - Brad Jacobs

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. - Emo Philips

A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups. - Gael Garcia Bernal

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

A boxing gym is a melting pot. In my gym, I have Palestinians training next to Israelis. I have men and women ... as young as 7 and my oldest is 79. - Bruce Silverglade

[Tarver and Jones met in the ring for the first time as 13-year-olds at the 1982 Sunshine State Games.] I won the first round... Roy won the second. The third round was close and he got the decision. Then, when I was fourteen, my mother moved us to a better section of Orlando that was thirty miles from the Boys Club. There was no way for me to get to the gym, so I gave up boxing and concentrated on other sports. I played quarterback and wide receiver in football and shooting guard on the high school basketball team. In my mind, I was good. But I wasn't as good as I thought. - Antonio Tarver

[Jeanette] was one of the four great black boxers of the early 1900s, and he owned a boxing gym on 26th Street and Summit Avenue. Jeanette Street between Summit Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard is named for him. - Kathie Pontus

[He became an American citizen and, after a brief amateur boxing career in the early 1920s, performed in vaudeville and on Broadway before launching a film career in 1938 that included starring roles in 54 feature films, including his] On the Road ... The Road to Singapore. - Bing Crosby