Boxing Quotes

“A champagne moment.”

“The jab is the key to everything in boxing. It sets up everything else.”

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.”

“I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.”

“Last night I was having a dream, and I was hitting this guy. I was knocking him down, and I was hitting him. Then I woke up and my wife had a black eye.”

“He's throwing punches in bunches.”

“Boxing is the theater of the unexpected.”

“He is landing the heavier, more telling blows.”

“My jab is as fast as a cobra's strike.”

“What we have here is the classic confrontation: the bull and the matador. It's what boxing is all about.”

“That's it! It is all over!”

“Foreman was the hardest puncher I ever fought.”

“Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took, and your name in the undertaker's book.”

“I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.”

“When you're a boxer, you have to be ready for anything.”

“He's hurt! He's hurt badly!”

“If I was 50 years younger, I'd kick your ass!”

“My biggest weakness was that I was too nice.”

“A guy has to be born a fighter. You can't make a fighter.”

“By God, I'm the man who licked the man who licked Jack Johnson.”