Boxers Quotes

After my arrival in Russia, I saw that there is a large community of boxers. I also felt appreciated in Russia. Maybe even a lot more than I was valued and appreciated in my own country.

Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.

I think it’s pretty silly that people wear boxers. You’re wearing shorts under your pants. They’re shorts.

Boxers are absolute novices in the clinch.

The thing is with boxers we don’t come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it’s very, very hard.

‘I Am Legend’ is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn’t get that going in my mind. I don’t know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from.

The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.

I don’t want my career to peter out fighting meaningless fights; I want to go against the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world.

The best boxers don’t always qualify for the Olympics. You can easily have a bad day, but please God, that won’t happen to me.

The general public don’t like boxers. They prefer tennis players.

I proposed abolishing boxing because it was bad for the brain, but boxers were generally so decent that I loved being around the gyms.

A lot of boxers have too much on their plate.

Conor knows how to fight and he knows how to box. He has been boxing professional boxers for his whole life, he has had almost 50 amateur boxing fights.

Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.

In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and ’70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide.

Boxing’s in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I’m blessed with the art of war.

To me, professional wrestling is made up of that: Olympians, world-class power-lifters, fighters, boxers, and you name it.

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion – those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I’d like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.

Wilder is like a windmill, he’s rubbish, he’s one of the worst boxers going.

In boxing, it just seemed to me from the time I was a very small child, we have a peculiarly civilized form in that boxers don’t screech and holler. They don’t use weapons. When the bell rings, they fight; when the bell rings again, they stop.

I have always wanted to be European champion, because it is a fantastic title and so many great boxers have held the belt over the years.

It’s a punishment game… only two boxers get in the ring. So when we get in the ring and we’re not angry, then you’re not a real boxer.

For ‘Boxers & Saints,’ I started by reading a couple of articles on the Internet, then writing a really rough outline, then getting more hardcore into the research. I went to a university library once a week for a year, year and a half.

I can easily get a gold in the 48 kg. category, but 51 kg., it’s difficult because other boxers may have a height advantage.

A lot of boxers try to make it entertaining by fighting with their mouth.

I went with my friends to ‘Boxers and Brawlers’ in San Antonio to train the way I am supposed to train when you are 40, but doing it at a higher level.

When we all retire it will be the happiest day of her life. She’s proud of what we’ve all done but she doesn’t enjoy it. Most mums of boxers only have one to worry about – but she’s got four.

I’m going to be a happy housewife. I’m going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.

If chronic bashing of the head could destroy a boxer’s brain, couldn’t it also destroy a football player’s brain? Surely someone in the history of football had thought to look for dementia pugilistica. Unlike boxers, football players wear helmets, but a helmet can’t fully protect the head from damaging impact.

Castro always used the boxers as a symbolic war against American values to demonstrate that they fight for something more than money.

I actually don’t like boxers who talk too much.

Sculpture and seams are like boxers and broken noses: They go hand in hand.

Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan culture that flourished on Crete until 1100 B.C. The boxing booths at English fairs featured women in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.

Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capitalism and communism: Castro’s values instilled in his boxers pitted against the values of ‘merchandise’ boxers from the rest of the world.

I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn’t want to be one of those guys.

I accept MMA, I appreciate MMA, I even get techniques from MMA, surprisingly, like footwork techniques and how I move. It’s different and unorthodox to what boxers are normally used to.

From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.

I make 99 percent of my music sitting down, in boxers, when I’m comfortable in my computer chair.

I am not like most fighters. I want to be on the list of the greatest, best boxers in history.

I never really understood why guys wear boxers underneath swim trunks.

It’s not often you get to sit in front of Nicole Kidman in your boxers with a big bowl of spaghetti.

There was nothing special about me; there are boxers in Belfast who are more skilled but I had a bit between my teeth that drives me on.

There’s so much drama in the lives of boxers. It’s a contact sport and everyday they beat up people for a living.

When I see great boxers, it’s like reading a wonderful poem.

For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think boxing is very dramatic.

A lot of boxers get along well. But if you have to fight each other, then leave that relationship behind.

I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization – the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities – is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.

We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.

I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm room. And I came up with the idea of writing an action-based ‘Snow White,’ with this kind of Huntsman character as kind of a way in. So, that’s something I’m sort of proud of.

After doing boxing a little bit, I knew that I wanted to achieve what the other boxers were achieving: the championship and whatever comes with the championships.

When you’re growing up, it’s always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I’m proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.

As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.

I’ve kept improving in many ways. Boxers evolve with experience.

Just like many great boxers before me, regardless of where they’re from, they’re not always starting out with the nicest stuff. You don’t need the latest stuff to get where you’re heading – all you need is focus and drive.

Being able to train nothing but boxing for a full year made me a much better boxer as I brought in professional boxers helped me make a lot of gains.

Boxers, man, except when I have to get dressed up. Then it’s boxer-briefs. But never tighty-whities. Never. But dude! If they brought back Underoos? Dude, if they brought back Underoos, I would rock the Underoos. Like He-Man and Transformers and G.I. Joe and even like Dukes of Hazzard.

I interviewed around 20 women boxers and all of them told me they learnt boxing to get a job. At one point, I asked one boxer if she had the passion for sports. She told me ‘put some food in my belly and I’ll talk about passion.’

It’s sad to see boxers sometimes when they’ve come from these massive highs with thousands of people screaming for them. They’re the best at what they do – then, that’s it: stopped, finished.

Imagine stepping into the shoes of Roberto Duran, one of the most legendary boxers in the history of the sport, and definitely the most legendary Latin American boxer, and then having ‘Raging Bull’ in my corner. I mean, imagine that? Just having Robert De Niro to play the trainer in the movie, that was fantastic.

No, I’ve never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I’d been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.

For ‘Boxers and Saints’, the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect.

If you compare me to an actor, I’m probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I’m probably one of the best actors.

People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I’m definitely not upset by that.

I ran into a couple of guys who were boxers. They talked me into working out at their gym. I became obsessed with boxing and the idea of becoming a champion.

A man should definitely own a couple of blue denims, white crew neck T-shirt, a versatile blazer, comfortable pair of boxers, and coloured sneakers.

Just like footballers want to play at Wembley, the Nou Camp and the Bernabeu, boxers have their dream arenas too.

I think the ‘Boxers’ book was easier for me to envision as a comic, because they were on this epic journey. These teenagers basically gathered into this army and marched to the capital city where they had a showdown with the Europeans and Japanese. On the ‘Saints’ side, it was a lot trickier.

People who have never boxed before, never worked hard in boxing, and they are starting to come in and people forget about the real boxers.

All boxers are different, and we all approach the fights in different ways.

Promoters need you. You don’t need them… The boxer has the leverage, and a lot of boxers don’t know that.

When I trained for ‘Creed,’ I had about a year in advance to know what I was doing before. So I lived like a fighter, you know? I went through the workout routine, the diet, training with real boxers, training with real trainers, did the whole thing.

While professional basketball, football, and baseball players make millions and their salaries represent well over 50% of the billions generated by those sports, the spoils of boxing don’t often make it to the boxers.

The Boxer Rebellion is a war that was fought on Chinese soil in the year 1900. The Europeans, the Japanese and their Chinese Christian allies were on one side. On the other were poor, starving, illiterate Chinese teenagers whom the Europeans referred to as the Boxers.

Boxing does not favor boxers over 35 who rely on reflexes.