Which one of these boxing quotes do you like the most? Is there one you wanna add.

I like them all to a degree.


"The kid's so desparate. He's just a desparate fan...Kid got a jerry curl man. Come on man, it's 2010. The kid must've woke up in that hot tub time machine,"-Floyd

“When two men are fighting, what makes you’re watching is more a contest of wills than of skills, with the stronger will usually overcoming skill. The skill will prevail only when it is so superior to the other man’s skill that the will is not tested….-Cus D'amato

"So when they climb those stairs, I never call a fighter yellow. Knowing what he goes through, the very act of climbing into that ring stamps him a person of courage and discipline.”-Cus D'amato

"They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce." -Willie Pep

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other." -JACK HANDY

 

I like these two.

The Cus quote raises an interesting point. Every now and then we get a fighter that so great that he can make fights battles of skills in which he gets the better of the majority of the time.

 

enjoy the tyson and ali one. tyson has become quite an insightful and deep thinking person these days. i often see tyson quotes on facebook and they are very inspirtational. often share it with my students. wonder if it's the real tyson though.

forgot which fight it was but it they were talking a mexican fighter turning pro at 15 and how that seems to be a popular trend there, and jim lampley asked merchant to explain this and merchant said, "well, the child labor laws are pretty loose there."

 

All great quotes. I'll add some of my own favorites:

"If you don't use your head in the ring, you're a piece of ****."- Roberto Duran

"You play soccer. You play tennis. You don't play boxing." Mike Tyson (that one from memory)

 

boxing is like jazz. the better it is the less people apreciate it. - big george

 

Cus was the Yoda of boxing

 

yep I haven't seen anyone else with his level of understanding when it comes to what goes on inside of fighters minds

 

Absolute classic haha. I'd love to hear Duran arguing that point with someone haha.

 

Lennox Lewis to David Tua: "You need more than a left hook and a haircut to beat me"

 

He also had a nice quote on Holyfield and his three punches.

 

"When does the pain go away? When the check clears"-Ray Leonard
"I want my fights to be like plays that have a beginning,a middle and an end"-Ray again.
"Sure the fight was fixed,I fixed it with a right hand"-Big George after shocking the world v Moorer.
"I'm not God but I am similar"-Duran,the master of understatement.
(I remember seeing an article on great quotes in Bleacher Report,and Tex Cobb was very prominent,can't remember off hand but there were a couple of belters from him)

"To see a man beaten not by a better fighter but by himself is a real tragedy"-Cus "Yoda" D'Amato
(And again,from that article,sorry if it's not word for word) "The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Ray Robinson,Ray Robinson and Ray Robinson"-Jake LaMotta

And in the doorway of the gym I attend is one of the greatest;"I hated every minute of training,but I said, Don't quit,suffer now and live the rest of your life as a Champion"-no need to say who that was,but I often wish I'd applied it more to my life when I was younger.