All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.
I'm in the game of spinning plates. I'm spinning a boxing plate. I'm spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I'm spinning a Jujitsu plate. I'm spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I'm spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.
I'm not really a gambler, but I'll bet on the Super Bowl or some boxing. Something I feel comfortable with.
Boxing saved my life. There were a lot of gangs and I was hanging around with the wrong people.
I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.
I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
One of the reasons boxing is one of the greatest things to happen to my life is because it made me human again.
I don't have the runs on the board to trash talk anyone in the boxing sense. I've got to do it the hard way and earn that respect.
My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.
Boxing is all about timing. And if you take long periods of inactivity, you will be made to pay the price.
Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.
I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
During my career, there were times we were inseparable, and I can honestly say that if it were not for Brendan Ingle, I would not have achieved all I did in the sport of boxing.
In the 1940s, boxing was a mainstream sport and deeply ingrained the fabric of Harlem. Joe Louis ruled the world, but the local icon was Sugar Ray Robinson.
I was into basketball, football, karate, boxing.
In my teenage years, I started kickboxing, then did a little boxing. When the UFC and MMA exploded in the early 2000s in the U.S.A. and Japan, I saw a way to make money and a career.
Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
There were no Asian lads boxing when I started.
Youngsters taking up boxing will get a lot of encouragement to do something for the country, seeing my laurels.
