Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Tyson

Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.

Mike Tyson

Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

Mike Tyson

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

My power is discombobulatingly devastating.

Mike Tyson

If he's not dead, it doesn't count.

Mike Tyson

I'm just happy I'm not a phoney.

Mike Tyson

That's all they said was wrong with me?

Mike Tyson

I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your ass. You know?

Mike Tyson

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.

Mike Tyson

He was crying in there, making woman gestures.

Mike Tyson

When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.

Mike Tyson

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

Leon Spinks

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

Natalie Cole

I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

I never expected to be champion and be at one of the lowest times of my career. I still love the sport of boxing but I don't care for the business part of it.

Shannon Briggs

I'm trying to sell. My goal is to bring boxing back. Win, lose or draw, I'm here to bring back the thrill.

I own a business, and my wife was expecting our first child, and boxing out of Nashville is pretty hard anyway. And I just had a lot happening and my family takes priority, ... There weren't any great opportunities happening, and I was just focusing on my business and my family.

Morley Callaghan

I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.

I guess for us the season started on that Boxing Day when we found out that Troy was missing, and then on the 28th we found out that he was dead,

Russell Crowe

I never saw Jim as a man who really lived for boxing at all. To me, the story was interesting because of his change of fortune. I thought, 'This is a great story, because it's true. You couldn't make it up.' Braddock had been a very responsible young man when he was doing well as a boxer. He'd saved his money, he hadn't wasted it. He hadn't lived outside his means. He did the thing everybody said to do at the time, which was to invest his money in the stock market. And in October 1929, he lost 85 per cent of his total net worth and was brought to the brink of bankruptcy. Suffice it to say, things turned bad.

Steve Nelson

I've had positive discussions with (local boxing promoter) Ron Resnick regarding the use of his impressive ring facilities and with sponsors interested in supporting a training camp in Rochester. City and county officials seem excited about the idea. It's looking good at this point.

Steve Nelson

It was the greatest moment in his career, and it was one of the greatest upsets in boxing history, but in some ways, it didn't help him as a boxer. He thought it was easy and that the rest would be easy.

It will be a diverse showcase of entertainers from people like actor Kelsey Grammer, boxing promoter Don King and Gloria Estefan.

It's a good fighter's fight. Boxing fans get it. I think it's an intriguing fight.

Dana White

In Spike TV, we have found a television partner that understands and embraces our sport that is on the verge of overtaking boxing as the #1 combat sport in America.

I'm teaching a couple of these guys how to punch. What I'm noticing is how many tickets they sold. I don't want to be too much of a diehard boxing purist.

In the second half, we picked it defensively. We got to every loose ball. We did a better job of boxing out. And we knocked down the free throws.

Honestly, the ladies who come in here generally work a little harder than the guys. Boxing is a man's world. The ladies who come in here want to show they belong, so their habits are generally more intense.

George Bernard Shaw

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

I really plan on just boxing in the purest sense you can see. There'll be a little flash, hand speed and power. I don't know much about my opponent, but I respect him for coming here.

Antonio Tarver

Hopkins gives us this feel good story of how he's going to walk away from the boxing game, riding out on his throne.

I didn't think we played very well defensively the first half. The second half was the time we played really hard and started boxing out.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I started boxing one day a week to experience aggression, which has been really interesting.