Quotes on Boxing Champions

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.

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

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.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

The will must be stronger than the skill.

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

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

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

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

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

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

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

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

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.