«Boxing»

Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.

Joyce Carol Oates

I took up boxing as a fitness thing. I got obsessed, and I would go every day when I wasn’t working. It’s just an insane sport when you get into it.

Lena Headey

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Joyce Carol Oates

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

Bob Verdi

See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that’s why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.

Alexis Arguello

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won’t ever forget that.

Oscar De La Hoya

Boxing is a sport, but it’s also entertainment. I wanted to transcend the sport and be considered just not as a fighter, or a champion, but someone very special.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing, for me, it’s the beginning of all sports. I’m willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that’s something innate in all of us.

Omar Epps

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer’s mind.

Tom Watson

I’m a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

Gerry Cooney

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

Joe Frazier

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

Frank Bruno

There’s ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.