Quotes about boxing

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

Ali, Muhammad on boxing
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"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

Ali, Muhammad on boxing
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"Boxing is just show business with blood."

Bruno, Frank on boxing   

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

Dempsey, Jack on boxing   

"I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet."

Foreman, George on boxing   

"All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps."

Holmes, Larry on boxing   

"I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight."

Marciano, Rocky on boxing   

"It's the boxers who attract the real women, after all, with their raw primeval strength, beautifully toned bodies and just a touch of vulnerability."

Mccabe, Eamonn on boxing   

"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer -- he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."

Thompson, Hunter S. on boxing   

"Boxing is dangerous, but at least it hits the right people. "

Kocher, Gerhard on boxing