Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. Muhammad Ali
It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. Muhammad Ali
If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize. Muhammad Ali
I was called ‘Rembrandt’ Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. Bob Hope
All the time he’s boxing, he’s thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him. Jack Dempsey
A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t. Jack Dempsey
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone. Billy Joel
Honey, I forgot to duck. Jack Dempsey
Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning. Jack Dempsey
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Muhammad Ali
Tall men come down to my height when I hit ’em in the body. Jack Dempsey
Boxing has become America’s tragic theater. Joyce Carol Oates
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. Joyce Carol Oates