Quotes by Boxers

I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.
Jack Dempsey
Science provides us with the methods we need to discover the truth. However it is only by developing wisdom through spirituality that provides the force we need to generate meaning in our lives.
Ray Mancini
You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes - that means your [preparation:]. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights.
Joe Frazier
Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali
The question isn't at what age I want to retire it's at what income.
George Foreman
Normality does not exist. There is no such a thing as normal. The social norms that guide most people are not always normal for everyone. Behaviours and actions that are abnormal for most people may be considered normal for others, so therefore normality does not exist. Stay true to yourself; never be ashamed of doing what feels right to you at any giving moment, decide what feels right to you and do it. Don’t be normal, be yourself.
Ray Mancini
The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me.
Muhammad Ali
The Advanced Level is Mastery of the Basics
Ray Mancini
Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer
Muhammad Ali
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
If I don't get off the mat I'll lose the fight.
Archie Moore
The critics only made me work harder.
Muhammad Ali
Look at your life like a blank canvas and you're the artist, now go ahead and paint your masterpiece." Ray Mancini.
Ray Mancini
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.
Muhammad Ali
Every great artist has the sense of provocation.
Arthur Cravan
What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.
Muhammad Ali
Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring fight one more round.
James J. Corbett
The best defense is a good offense.
Jack Dempsey
When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.
Muhammad Ali
Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired that you have to shuffle back to the centre of the ring, fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.
James Corbett
If you don't take chances you can't do anything in life.
Michael Spinks
Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that’s in rhythm or you’re in trouble. Your rhythm should set the pace of the fight. If it does, then you penetrate your opponent’s rhythm. You make him fight your fight, and that’s what boxing is all about.
Sugar Ray Robinson
Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.
Arthur Cravan
If I lose I'll walk away and never feel bad.... Because I did all I could there was nothing more to do.
Joe Frazier
My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.
Muhammad Ali
Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.
Joe Frazier
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.
Mike Tyson
If you want to be the best, be the best, if you are not the best, pretend you are
Muhhamad Ali
Impossible is nothing.
Muhammad Ali
Age is a state of mind.
Ken Norton
We know that energy can not be created nor destroyed but can be changed in it's form. If it can not be formed then it can not exist. We may not exist.
Mohammed Ali
Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
Muhammad Ali
I look at ordinary people in their suits them with no scars and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!
Willie Pastrano
A champion is someone ho gets up, een when he can't
Jack Dempsey
Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
Sugar Ray Leonard
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.
Muhammad Ali
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
Muhammad Ali
What did I hope to gain from my game and from putting my parents through all this? The truth is that I loved to play. My body was fit and my mind raring to go. But I also hoped that I would get a government job through the sports quota.
M.C. Mary Kom
I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.
Muhammad Ali
If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough.
Muhammad Ali
Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
Joe Louis
Reason Develops Passion, Passion Creates Motivation, Motivation is the driving force behind all actions = GREAT RESULTS.
Ray Mancini
You become a champion by fighting one more round.
James Corbett
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.
George Foreman
I don't like money actually but it quiets my nerves.
Joe Louis
Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.
Muhammad Ali
They'll take everything, even your tears.
George Foreman
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Muhammad Ali
Whatever you do in your life, always go the distance.
Ken Norton
We can't be brave without fear.
Muhammad Ali
Inside of a ring or out ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
Muhammad Ali
What a tragedy it would be if you lived your entire life without discovering who you are, without reaching your full potential.” Ray Mancini
Ray Mancini
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
Muhammad Ali
each year, she finds her friendships less volatile and easier, because she increasingly succeeds at looking past their flaws and disappointments and homing in on their pleasures and on what set them in motion to begin with. And she wonders why she didn’t do that sooner, why she gave in to so much fury and sorrow when she could have just let those emotions go.
Frank Bruno
HUMANITY IS AN EXPERIMENT:Your present life now is nothing less than a cheap and pathetic imitation of what life supposed to be like, unless you free yourself from the slavery we have all accepted for reality you will never get to paradise.
Ray Mancini
The more things you have in common with the normal population the more you are not being yourself.
Ray Mancini
Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
Georges Carpentier
At home I am a nice guy but I don't want the world to know. Humble people I've found don't go very far.
Muhammad Ali
I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
Muhammad Ali