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"Boxing" Quotes


"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Muhammad Ali
"I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK."
Muhammad Ali
"I know I can learn to hit without getting hit."
Muhammad Ali
"I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own."
Muhammad Ali
"People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing."
Muhammad Ali
"I have never heard anything that affected me like those words: ‘Heavyweight Champion of the World.’"
Muhammad Ali
"The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights."
Muhammad Ali
"It takes pride and tiger’s drive to build up the confidence, the ego the power to defeat an opponent in the ring."
Muhammad Ali
"I may have been the best fighter, but I was also the poorest. I had never been able to afford a first-class mouthpiece to protect my teeth. I had to wait until other fighters finished so I could borrow their headgear, or their trunk or bandages."
Muhammad Ali
"Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round."
Muhammad Ali
"t's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."
Muhammad Ali
"His hands can’t hit what his eyes can't see."
Muhammad Ali
"I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over — like the Kennedys down in Washington."
Muhammad Ali
"When a fighter is beaten, everybody who believes in him is beaten too — his family, his friends, his children, the people who cheer him on, who give him their love, their hope, their pride."
Muhammad Ali
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong."
Muhammad Ali
"It takes a lot out of a fighter to throw punches that land in thin air."
Muhammad Ali