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203 Boxer Quotes

Just set yourself a goal and try and stick to it. Because you’ll always end up better than where you started.

Stick Goal End Better
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No matter how big and strong you are even Tyson said he was scared as hell walking to the ring. Everyone feels the pressure.

Strong Big Pressure Matter
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From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It’s the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategize your mindset.

Win Battle War Mindset
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When you are around people who have money, you realize money isn’t that impressive, it’s about your class, morals and how you conduct yourself.

Conduct Money Around People
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People have built me up to be untouchable, unbeatable, invincible, and I’m not that. I am a man, and I am a winner, but that can change in a second.

Winner Change Second People
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Sleeping is like meditation: it’s good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.

Meditation Body Mind Down
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Cardio is a nice way to start the morning, man. Whether you sit on the bike for half an hour or throw on two jumpers and just sweat, it’s good to get up, get the body active, put on your headphones, and just pedal away.

Start Morning Active Sweat
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I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learned that you have to be determined. It’s not violence or aggression. It’s sheer determination.

Learn Violence Culture Sheer
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You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there are limits, you’ve already set yourself up to fail.

Speak Place Limit Fail
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Don’t worry about the title. Worry about what you’ve got to do today, tomorrow, the next day, and that title will be waiting for you.

Today Worry Title About
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It’s hard to say I don’t like being famous, but how I feel is that I don’t see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me.

Hard Being Famous Person
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Sportsmen just do what they do. I’m not trying to be a role model. If there’s any inspiration people can take from me, take as much as you can – from my good and my bad.

Role Good Inspiration Much
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Prayer is a form of meditation, isn’t it? It’s the law of attraction: whatever you put out into the universe is what you receive. It’s just kind of putting your thoughts out into the universe.

Form Meditate Universe Thought
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It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the physical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart.

Certain Become Overcome Aspect
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The belt doesn’t represent me; it’s how you deal with people, how you represent yourself as a champion. The belt is a sign of a champion, but what makes a champion is the things I have just said.

Deal Champion Sign People
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People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail – that’s no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.

Crime Reward Low End
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Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You always have to go with what your spirit tells you, not what people advise you. I’m a man that will always follow my own path.

Positive Around Always Spirit
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I don’t have a preferred religion – I’d have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as I’ve grown into my own man, I don’t attach myself to a religion – 100 percent, I have faith. Then it’s locking into what suits me.

Faith Attach Myself Suit
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Prayer is a method practiced from ancient days, so it’s very important for us to maintain a spiritual connection, something that people, gladiators would do years ago, so we’re just maintaining that routine.

Method Ancient Very Year
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What makes a champion great is how he dethrones the guy before him. Look at Mike Tyson against Trevor Berbick and how he crushed him. You have to rip the title away from him.

Great Before Away Make
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When you are caught with a big shot, you don’t really feel it. It’s like being in a car crash, and maybe your arm has been ripped off, it is only when you look down at it that you realize it has happened.

Shot Crash Realize When
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The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tough. That’s my main opponent – making sure that if your body wants to stop, your mind won’t let you.

More Head Main Body
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As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.

Long Make Success Everything
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I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Rest Suffer Quit Life
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Accomplish Courageous Enough He
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It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Becomes Begin Belief Conviction
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There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Been Fight Fights Pleasure
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Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Bottom Come Defeated Down
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It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Afraid Believed Challenges Faith
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If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Bread Make Out Penicillin
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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Age Old Think Whatever
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Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Change Fought Map Maps
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My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
Am Fault Great How
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I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

Double Greatest Knock Only
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I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Believe Defeats Happened Life
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Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

Again Ali Counts Down
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Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Anything Friendship Learn Learned
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I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

Black Free Got Hell
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Beat Birds Fly Grass
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When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Any Know Man Never
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Superman don't need no seat belt.

Belt Need Seat Superman
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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Beat Black Boxing Each
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I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Allah Believe IBelieve IBelieveIn
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I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

Am Astronaut Boxing IAm
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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Did Fifty He His
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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Earth Here Others Pay
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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Beat More People Pleasant
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It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

Am BeHumble Great Hard
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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.

Away Before Behind Dance
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Convince Enough Figured Greatest
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