Boxing Quotes

"His hands can’t hit what his eyes can't see." "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." "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." "I know I can learn to hit without getting hit." "I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own." "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." "I have never heard anything that affected me like those words: ‘Heavyweight Champion of the World.’" "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." "It takes pride and tiger’s drive to build up the confidence, the ego the power to defeat an opponent in the ring." "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." "Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round." "t's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." "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." "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." "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"