Boxing Quotes

"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." "It takes a lot out of a fighter to throw punches that land in thin air." "I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the ghetto striving to do something positive with myself." "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" "I try to catch them right on the tip of the nose because I try to punch the bone into the brain" "Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took, and your name in the undertaker book" "A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end" "Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body" "I've always been a sucker for a prize fight." "I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them" "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." "All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." "A lot of people throw punches in the ring, but the best fighters are those who can take it."