Boxing Quotes

"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong."

"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."

"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."

"Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan"

"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."

"Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round."

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

"I try to catch them right on the tip of the nose because I try to punch the bone into the brain"

"I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the ghetto striving to do something positive with myself."

"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."

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

"When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had one fight in New York state that lasted twenty rounds. I got $6. But I won the fight. All the time I was getting knocked down, I kept getting up."

"A lot of people throw punches in the ring, but the best fighters are those who can take it."