Boxing is the sport where you can't take anything for granted. The margin of error is so small that the slightest bit can change a fight, career and even a life. To be successful, you need skill, talent and above all, the will to win.
In this post I leave you great motivational boxing phrases from the best boxers in history. Among them Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Manny Pacquiao, Sugar Ray Leonard, Floyd Mayweather, Mike Tyson and many more.
You may also be interested in these phrases about sport or these by Mohammed Ali.
-Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There is nothing that can compare to prove to yourself than the way you do it every time you step into the ring.-Sugar Ray Leonard.
-The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and on the road, before I dance under those lights.-Muhammad Ali.
-I hated every minute of training, but I told myself; Don't give up. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.-Muhammad Ali.
-I am so fast that last night I turned off the light in my hotel room and I was in bed before the room was dark.-Muhammad Ali.
-Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Your hands cannot hit what your eyes do not see.-Muhammad Ali.
-When you are as great as I am, it is difficult to be humble.-Muhammad Ali.
-I am fast, I am handsome, I am the best.-Muhammad Ali.
-I am a boxing sage, a boxing scientist. I am a master of dance, a true artist of the ring.-Muhammad Ali.
-Champs are not made in gyms. They are made of something immaterial that is deep within them. It is a dream, a wish, a vision.-Muhammad Ali.
-The attack is only half the art of boxing.-Georges Carpentier.
-You have to know that you can win. You have to believe that you can win. You have to feel that you can win.-Sugar Ray Leonard.
-A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.-Jack Dempsey.
-Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.-Manny Pacquiao.
-Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knokout in its making.-Sugar Ray Leonard.
-He can have a heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there is no smarter fighter than me.-Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr.
-The rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with the heart.- Sugar Ray Robinson.
-To stay on top and keep your focus, you have to have something that motivates you.- “Marvellous” Marvin Hagler.
-The temptation to greatness is the greatest drug in the world.-Mike Tyson.
-I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I lose a star I grab a handful of clouds.-Mike Tyson.
-While we persevere and resist, we can get everything we want.-Mike Tyson.
-This is not a tough man's world. It is a world of intelligent men.-Mike Tyson.
-To be a champion, fight one more round.-James Corbett.
-It's less about physical training than about mental preparation: boxing is a game of chess. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know many ways to counterattack in any situation, at any time.-Jimmy Smits.
-I fight for perfection.- "Iron" Mike Tyson.
-With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easily.-Manny Pacquiao.
-The hero and the coward feel the same, but the hero uses his fear and projects it on the opponent, while the coward flees.-Cus D'Amato.
-I was painfully started in boxing because those I fought with were much bigger than me.-Sugar Ray Leonard.
-The question is not at what age I want to retire, it is with what income.-George Foreman.
-Boxing gave me the opportunity to grow into the person I am today.-Alexis Arguello.
-The three greatest boxers I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I struggled with Sugar so many times that it surprises me that he is not diabetic.-Jake LaMotta.
-That is the most beautiful thing I like about boxing: you can take a hit. The greatest thing about being hit is that your ego reacts and there is no better spiritual lesson than trying not to pay attention to your ego's reaction.-David O. Russell.
-Boxing is really easy. Life is much harder.-Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
-Boxing brings out my aggressive instincts, not necessarily a killer instinct.-Sugar Ray Leonard.
-In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it is like chess.-Lennox Lewis.
-Of course the fight was arranged, I fixed it with a right hand.-George Foreman.
-I have had boxing gloves since before I could walk and I have been in gyms all my life.-Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
-Boxing is the hardest and loneliest sport in the world.-Frank Bruno.
His mouth made him feel like he was going to win. Not his hands, I had my hands. He had his lips.-Joe Frazier.
-Losing made me hungry, made me want to go out and win another title.-Thomas “Hitman” Hearns.
-Boxing is a sport. We allow ourselves to hit each other, but I don't treat my opponent as my enemy.-Manny Pacquiao.
-The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy, does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation of the finer and best things in life.-Jack Johnson.
-Once the bell rings you are alone. It's just you and the other man.-Joe Louis.
-In boxing, you never know who you are going to face in the ring.-Manny Pacquiao.
-I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer.-Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
-I am not God, but I am something similar.-Roberto «Manos de Piedra» Durán.
- Being beaten motivates me. It makes me punish the boy more.-Roberto Duran.
-He saved my life, saved my career. I cannot thank him enough for the opportunity to fight him.-Ken Norton (thanking Muhammad Ali).
-You're wrong at tennis, it's 15-0, my love. If you're wrong in boxing, it's your butt.-Randall “Tex” Cobb.
-Seeing a man beaten, not by a better opponent, but by myself, is a tragedy.-Cus D'Amato.
-Boxing is what pays my bills.-Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
-The man who has no imagination has no wings.-Muhammad Ali.
-It is different when you become a professional, because you also become a businessman.-Sugar Ray Leonard.
-Don't count the days, make the days count.-Muhammad Ali.
-To be a champion you have to believe in yourself when no one will.- Sugar Ray Robinson.
-I want your heart. I want to eat your children.-Mike Tyson.
-My blows are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.-Sonny Liston.
-If I survived the marines, you can survive Ali.-Chuck Wepner.
-You can be free. You can be black. Look at me. I am the heavyweight champion. No one can stop me.- Muhammad Ali.
-The moment could have come for Muhammad Ali, because honestly, I do not think he can defeat George Foreman.-Howard Cosell.
-I made many mistakes outside the ring, but I never made any in it.-Jack Johnson.
-I was a tiger, a good boxer in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.-George Foreman.
-Boxing is simply a bloody business.-Bruno Frank.
-A champion shows who he is by what he does when tested. When a person gets up and says "I can do it," he is a champion.-Evander Holyfield.
-The world of boxing is full of all kinds of corruption.-Al Sharpton.
-Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.-George Foreman.
-I think it's very good for boxing when a new guy or a new blood as we call him, makes a great statement.-George Foreman
-I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.-Don King.
-Boxing has kept me off the streets, prevents me from smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.-Billy Joe Saunders.
-I knew boxing before I knew anything else.-Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
-In boxing, everyone has their favorites.-Thomas Hearns.
-The problem with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.-Barry McGuigan.
-Boxing is a lot of white people watching two black men hit each other.-Muhammad Ali.
-Boxing is corridors full of smoke and the kidneys beaten until they bleed.- Roger Kahn.
-I have seen boxing in the shadow of George Foreman and the shadow won.-George Foreman.
-With me, boxing is a beautiful sport.-Nonito Donaire.
-Boxing will always be in my life.-Sugar Ray Leonard.
-I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport.-Sugar Ray Leonard.
-What better than walking down any street in any city knowing that you are the champion? -Rocky Marciano.