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Here some funny sporting quotes from the sport of Boxing. For the best ones, see my selection of the Top-10 Favorite Funny Boxing Quotes.



"To me, boxing is like a ballet - except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other." - Jack Handy

"When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances ... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring." - Bob Seger.

The three toughest fighters I've ever been up against were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surpised I'm not diabetic! Jake LaMotta

"The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters." George Foreman

"Sure there have been injuries and even some deaths in boxing - but none of them really that serious." Alan Minter

"I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round." - Muhammad Ali.

"I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost." Frank Bruno on his win against Oliver McCall

"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." Jack Dempsey

"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book." Joe Frazier

Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked. - Muhammad Ali.

"If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize." - Muhammad Ali.

"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is." Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota

"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." - Muhammad Ali

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. - Emo Philips

"Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a second helping." - Fred Mitchell

"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton." Dan Duva, Boxing promoter, on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King

"When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing." Don King

"I'm going to eat his children." Mike Tyson to Lennox Lewis before their fight. Lewis replied by telling the media that he did not have any children.

"I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm." - Mike Tyson.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. - Muhammad Ali

"When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble." - Muhammad Ali

And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head. - Alicia Keys

"I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world." - Muhammad Ali



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