Greatest Boxing Quotes & Sayings

I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more — Mike Tyson

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture. — Samuel Johnson

Some gems for the greatest of them all — Muhammad Ali

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest. — Muhammad Ali

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history — Muhammad Ali

Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs. — Sam Manekshaw

Okay, so two people who are in love - they are who they are when they're apart, but when they're together, the fact that they're in love is supposed to make them better. Love and relationships are supposed to make people better. — Elizabeth Norris

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world. — Nelson Mandela

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start. — Paige VanZant

I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era. — Adrien Broner

Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia. — Bernard Hopkins

I've fought everybody without ducking anyone. I have beaten 10 undefeated guys, and I never was comparing myself to the greatest in the sport. I was not thinking of breaking any records. I'm just enjoying my time in boxing. — Wladimir Klitschko

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't. — Stephan Jenkins

Thiel, tall, troubled, bewildered — Kristin Cashore

That's okay, I'm still the Greatest. — Muhammad Ali

When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there'd be 30 people in the audience. I was only 14 or 15, but I realised something was wrong. — Wynton Marsalis

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero. — Dick Schaap

The greatest fighter I ever saw — Gene Tunney

Sure, mom, I settle down with a nice girl every night, then I'm free the next morning. — Joe Pesci

I think Mike Gibbons was probably the greatest boxer that ever put a glove on. They called him The Wizard, The Phantom of the ring and he was that. I boxed with Mike about ten years and I never really hit him a hard punch during the time. Repeating again, Mike was one of the great boxers of the age. — Tommy Gibbons

I do believe he's the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he's one of the greatest men I've ever met. — George Foreman

If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules. — Don King

That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound ... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time. — Muhammad Ali

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation. — Viswanathan Anand

The key is grow your talent, attract talent, and then you'll attract the institutions that want to be around talent - and that, to me, is what we need to do at the national level. — Tim Kaine

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth. — Jacob Needleman

Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest. — Muhammad Ali

Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel. — Maturin Murray Ballou

What you look for in the world influences what materializes. What you perceive in the people around you influences how they show up. — Niurka

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest. — Muhammad Ali

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth. — Charles Dickens

I just did what I did in my era, basically because of my admiration for the guys who came before me. That's how I've always looked at it. I never thought of boxing like, I'm going to be the greatest fighter ever and make a lot of money. Instead, I thought I was going to win because I learned from the best. I carefully studied the videotapes of all the fighters from the past, dissected their styles, and entered the ring with their spirit. — Mike Tyson

Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire. — Katharine Lee Bates