Boxing is a sport of combat that involves two players typically wearing gloves as well as other protective equipment like mouth guards and hand wraps are able to punch each other for a set duration in the boxing ring. Boxing for amateurs is an Olympic and Commonwealth Games sport and is a feature in many international tournaments. Boxing is controlled by an official referee in an interval of three-minute intervals, referred to as rounds. The winner may be decided before the conclusion of rounds if a judge finds that an opponent is not able to continue or disqualifying an opponent and withdrawal from an opponent. If the fight is at the final round, with both fighters remaining in the fight in the ring, the scores of the judges determine the winner. If both fighters receive equally high scores from the judge, the fight is regarded as to be a draw. When it comes to Olympic boxing, as there is no way to determine who won by the judges, they award the fight to one of the fighters based on technical requirements. Here is a collection of boxing quotes for those who are dedicated to this sport.
Boxing Quotes
- Boxing is a lonely sport.” – Andre Ward
- Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.” – Floyd Mayweather
- In boxing, you never know who you’re going to face in ring.” – Manny Pacquiao
- The sky is the limit for me, but in boxing you have to take it one fight at a time.” – Adrien Broner
- All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.” – GerryCooney
- 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

To become a champion, fight one more round.-James Corbett
- Life is like a boxing match; defeat is declared not when you fall but when you refuse to stand again.-Unknown
- The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.-Muhammad Ali
- Boxing, the sweet science, and lyrical quotes go hand-in-hand. We’ve assembled some of the best boxing quotes and captions for boxing fans. Have a read-through, and let us know what you think.
- 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
- To become a champion, fight one more round.-James Corbett
- Life is like a boxing match; defeat is declared not when you fall but when you refuse to stand again.-Unknown
- The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.-Muhammad Ali
- In boxing, you create a strategy to beat each new opponent. It’s just like chess.-Lennox Lewis
- Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There’s nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.-Sugar Ray Leonard
- There’s a moment in fighting when the strength of muscle ain’t everything because the enemy has already given you enough energy to gain the victory.-Toba Beta
- It ain’t about how hard you can hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.-Unknown
- Don’t count the days. Make the days count.-Muhammad Ali
- He can have heart, he can hit harder, and he can be stronger, but there’s no fighter smarter than me.-Floyd Mayweather Jr
- There are no pleasures in a fight, but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.-Muhammad Ali
- I can fight, but that’s the only thing I can do. When it comes to anything other than fighting or talking, I’m not very good.-Tyson Fury
- Boxing definitely has a part to play in taking away unwanted aggression.-Joe Calzaghe

A boxer is always armed.-Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Once that bell rings, you are on your own. It’s just you and the other guy.-Joe Louis
- Fighting is like dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it is dancing.-David Lyons
- In boxing, they say it’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.-Katherine Dunn
- Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.-George Foreman
- To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.-Cus D’Amato
- All the time he’s boxing, he’s thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.-Jack Dempsey
- Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.-Gene Tunney
- Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!-Howard Cosell
- A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.-Jack Dempsey
- God only made one thing in this world that’s perfect – and that’s my boxing record.-Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the fewer people appreciate it.-George Foreman
- Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.-Randall “Tex” Cobb
- You never lose until you actually give up.-Mike Tyson
- I was painfully initiated into boxing because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.-Sugar Ray Leonard
- I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.-Jack Johnson
- To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.-Sugar Ray Robinson
- Boxing’s not that straightforward. You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.-Franny Billingsley

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.-Mike Tyson
- If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.-Muhammad Ali
- Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.-Joe Frazier
- Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
- A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
- Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
- All the time he’s boxing, he’s thinking. Al the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
- Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.
- It’s a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
- It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.
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- Don’t count the days; make the days count.
- The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
- If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.-Muhammad Ali
- I don’t count the sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count. That’s what makes you a champion.-Muhammad Ali
- Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A boxer takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
- Roberto “Hands of Stone” Duran
- “Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.” – Sugar Ray Leonard
- “To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.” – Jack Handey