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Boxing Quotes and Captions

Boxing, the sweet science, and lyrical quotes go hand-in-hand. We’ve assembled some of the best boxing quotes and captions for boxing fans. Have a read-through, and let us know what you think.

Ten Best Boxing Quotes

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’
Muhammad Ali

To become a champion, fight one more round.
James Corbett

Life is like a boxing match; defeat is declared not when you fall but when you refuse to stand again.
Unknown

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.
Muhammad Ali

In boxing, you create a strategy to beat each new opponent. It’s just like chess.
Lennox Lewis

In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn’t have any fear. I thought, ‘This is easy. This is what I’ve been waiting for’. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.
George Foreman

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.
Sugar Ray Leonard

There’s a moment in fighting when the strength of muscle ain’t everything because the enemy has already given you enough energy to gain the victory.
Toba Beta

It ain’t about how hard you can hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
Unknown

Don’t count the days. Make the days count.
Muhammad Ali

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Good Boxing Quotes

That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound…I’d say I’m the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.
Muhammad Ali

It’s less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
Jimmy Smits

The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.
Jack Johnson

He can have heart, he can hit harder, and he can be stronger, but there’s no fighter smarter than me.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.

There are no pleasures in a fight, but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
Muhammad Ali

I can fight, but that’s the only thing I can do. When it comes to anything other than fighting or talking, I’m not very good.
Tyson Fury

Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalize on them. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it’s not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.
Nicola Adams

Short Boxing Quotes

Boxing definitely has a part to play in taking away unwanted aggression.
Joe Calzaghe

A boxer is always armed.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Once that bell rings, you are on your own. It’s just you and the other guy.
Joe Louis

Fighting is like dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it is dancing.
David Lyons

In boxing, they say it’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
Katherine Dunn

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.
George Foreman

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
Cus D’Amato

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Mike Tyson

Inspiring

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

I’m not God, but I am something similar.
Roberto Duran

No Mas.
Roberto Duran

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
Gene Tunney

Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!
Howard Cosell

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
Jack Dempsey

God only made one thing in this world that’s perfect – and that’s my boxing record.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I fight for perfection.
Mike Tyson

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the fewer people appreciate it.
George Foreman

Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.
Randall “Tex” Cobb

You never lose until you actually give up.
Mike Tyson

I was painfully initiated into boxing because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
Sugar Ray Leonard

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
Jack Johnson

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Motivational Boxing Quotes

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn’t cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
Kris Kristofferson

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. And, 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.
J.Dempsey

In order to be at the top and maintain your focus, you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.
“Marvellous” Marvin Hagler

Famous

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.
Muhammad Ali

Even though I heard him say he doesn’t believe, cuz’ that’s why from watching Ali gave me a great deal of confidence and deep-down inner belief to believe there’s no man fighting that could beat me.
Mike Tyson

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A boxer takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
Roberto “Hands of Stone” Duran

I don’t count the sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count. That’s what makes you a champion.
Muhammad Ali

Boxing Sayings

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.
Muhammad Ali

That’s the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts, and there’s no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego’s reaction.
David O Russell

Boxing’s a poor man’s sport. We can’t afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It’s kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You’ve got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it’s a very lonely and scary place. It’s just you and the other guy.
Frank Bruno

It’s been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.
Angelo Dundee

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
Cus D’Amato

There are too many governing bodies. They’re all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of ‘corporate rule’ of boxing.
Larry Merchant

The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times; I’m surprised I’m not diabetic.
Jake LaMotta

It’s different when you become a professional because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Muhammad Ali Boxing Quotes

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Service to others is the rent your room here on earth.

It’s a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.

Don’t count the days; make the days count.

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.

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.

It’s not bragging if I can back it up.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was.

Mike Tyson

Everyone has a play ’till they get punched in the mouth.

I love to hit people. I love to.

I’m going to gut you like a fish.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

I’ll go back and take what the people owe me.

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It’s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

George Foreman Boxing Quotes

They’ll take everything, even your tears.

The question isn’t at what age I want to retire; it’s at what income.

My kid’s idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

Sonny Liston

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.

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

How would you like to find out how good my right is?

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

Jack Dempsey Boxing Quotes

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

All the time he’s boxing, he’s thinking. Al the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

The best defense is a good offense.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit ’em in the body.

I can’t sing, and I can’t dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.

Honey, I just forgot to duck.

Joe Louis

Nicknamed The Brown Bomber, Joe Louis was born in LaFayette, Alabama.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain’t nobody.

It hurt to even bump into him.

Money can’t buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain’t no man that ain’t made any.

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

He can run, but he can’t hide.

Inspirational Boxing Quotes

The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.
Thomas (Tommy) Hearns

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that’s in rhythm, or you’re in trouble. Your rhythm should set the pace of the fight. If it does, then you penetrate your opponent’s rhythm. You make him fight your fight, and that’s what boxing is all about.
Sugar Ray Robinson

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent while the coward runs. It’s the same thing, fear, but it’s what you do with it that matters.
Cus D’Amato

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

There is so much to learn from boxing. You can never have learned everything; anybody who says they know it all is lying. You can’t – there is always something new to learn.
Nicola Adams

Motivating

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I’m not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events – anything you do. You do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I’m saying because I have experience with that.
Wladimir Klitschko

Boxing’s not that straightforward. You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.
Franny Billingsley

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
Sugar Ray Robinson

If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you. The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
Mike Tyson

Boxing Captions For Instagram

  1. If you work hard in training, the fight is easy.
  2. I wanted to post a joke about boxing… but I forgot the punchline.
  3. A little progress every day adds up to big results.
  4. Heels off. Gloves on.
  5. You beat me to the punch.
  6. Come out swinging.
  7. Don’t let the weekend become your weak end.
  8. Keep your guard up.
  9. You don’t have to be extreme, just consistent.
  10. Heavy Hitter.
  11. Blow-by-blow.
  12. Fighting above your weight.
  13. Ready to take a dive.
  14. Duke it out.
  15. Time to throw hands.
  16. Throw in the towel.
  17. Here’s my corner.
  18. Glutton for punishment.
  19. That’s a low blow.
  20. Slugfest!

Boxing Sayings

  1. It’s about heart.
  2. On the ropes.
  3. The gloves are off.
  4. The ol’ one-two.
  5. Saved by the bell.
  6. The Rumble in the Jungle.
  7. Mean right cross.
  8. Roll with the punches.
  9. Rumble Young Man, Rumble.
  10. You big Palooka.
  11. Fight of the Year.
  12. Throw jabs, not shade.
  13. The only bad workout is the one that did not happen.
  14. The sweet science.
  15. Throw in the towel.
  16. Sore today, strong tomorrow.
  17. I’m nicer after boxing.
  18. Float like a butterfly.
  19. Win Rocky Win!
  20. I coulda been a contender.

By Phil Herman

Phil writes about sports, history, and boxing.

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