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They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight.
Sep 17, 2025
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 to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.
All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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.
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.
Don't count the days, make the days count.
Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.
I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
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