35 Inspirational Boxing Quotes On Success

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring. Amateur boxing is both an Olympic and Commonwealth Games sport and is a standard fixture in most international games—it also has its own World Championships. Boxing is overseen by a referee over a series of one-to-three-minute intervals called rounds. A winner can be resolved before the completion of the rounds when a referee deems an opponent incapable of continuing, disqualification of an opponent, or resignation of an opponent. May these Boxing Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “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.

2. “If you work hard in training, the fight is easy.” Manny Pacquiao

3. “Know that the power comes from within: when you are tired, or you want to give up, dig deep. Dig deep for whatever reason – in boxing, in sport, in life.” Joseph Parker

4. “To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can’t make that commitment, they don’t call you a champion anymore.” Rocky Marciano

5. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” Muhammad Ali

6. “Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.” Sugar Ray Leonard

7. “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 for the finer and better things of life.” Jack Johnson

8. “There is so much to learn from boxing, you can never have learnt everything; anybody who says they know it all is lying. You can’t – there is always something new to learn.” Nicola Adams

9. “A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this confidence appearing on my face, I don’t panic, otherwise your opponent will know that you are hurt. That’s the whole art game in boxing.” Evander Holyfield

10. “Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people.” Joe Frazier

11. “Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.” Joyce Carol Oates

12. “In order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.” Marvin Hagler

13. “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

14. “Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.” Alexis Arguello

15. “Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.” Muhammad Ali

16. “To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.” Cus D’amato

17. “The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.” Mike Tyson

18. “Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it’s not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.” Nicol Adams

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

20. “Boxing is not about your feelings. It’s about performance.” Manny Pacquiao

21. “To be a great champion you must first believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.” Muhammad Ali

22. “The hero and the coward both feel the same thing. But the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It’s the same thing, fear, but it’s what you do with it that matters.” Cus D’amato

23. “In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it’s just like chess.” Lennox Lewis

24. “Boxing is serious. It’s not a game. Just one punch – change life.” Gennady Golovkin

25. “In boxing, they say it’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement.” Katherine Dunn

26. “You don’t think. It’s all instinct. If you stop to think, you’re gone.” Sugar Ray Robinson

27. “A champion shows who he is by what he does when he’s tested. When a person gets up and says ‘I can still do it’, he’s a champion. If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That’s all I am. I live it.” Marvin Hagler

28. “In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn’t have any fear. I thought, ‘This is easy. This is what I’ve been waiting for’. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.” George Foreman

29. “Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I’m not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events – anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I’m saying because I have experience with that.” Wladimir Klitschko

30. “I’m scared every time I go into the ring, but it’s how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, ‘Let’s go.'” Mike Tyson

31. “When you’re around some of the greatest minds in boxing, and you don’t take something from it, you’re a fool. I would just sit and listen to Don King talk all day, and everyone would be like, ‘He talks too much.’ I would tell them, ‘No, there’s wisdom in these conversations.'” Eric B.

32. “Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.” F.X. Toole

33.“Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that’s in rhythm or you’re in trouble.” Sugar Ray Robinson

34. “Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn’t cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.” Kris Kristofferson

35. “It ain’t about how hard you can hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” Rocky Balboa

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