Boxing Motivational Quotes

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 ~ Cus D'Amato

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

They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight. ~ Ferdie Pacheco

I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight. ~ Rocky Marciano

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

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

If you don't know where to put your money, it will be gone. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Whole world is a school for those who wish to learn.. ~ Psyheal

Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed. ~ Robert H. Schuller

I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change. ~ Leisel Jones

The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it. ~ Dan Jenkins

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. ~ Dave Matthews

It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement. ~ Fran Tarkenton

Most people want to be perceived as Katana swords, but they don't spend enough time in the forge to even be butter knives. ~ Jason Taylor

We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less. ~ Stephen Covey

In a thousand years, nobody will remember the naysayers and meek worshippers, but your work will write your name upon the very fabric of time in golden engravings. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Allow seven months to responsibly train for your first marathon. This will minimize stress to your mind and body and give your existential nature time to incorporate a new way of being. ~ Gina Greenlee

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.' ~ Arthur Ashe

Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. ~ Swami Vivekananda

I want to stay involved in gymnastics forever, but the Olympics really opened up doors in terms of motivational speaking. I'd like do some type of broadcasting or commentating for gymnastics events on TV, or even give my insights as a gymnast into other sports; I'm kind of a sports junkie in general. ~ Jonathan Horton

Expect the best, plan for the worst and prepare to be surprised. ~ Dennis Waitley

To get power is to pray. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing. ~ Jason Isaacs

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions. ~ Steven Wright

A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have compassion toward him because a man of understanding can understand the viewpoint of the other also. He knows why the other feels as he feels, he knows why the other is angry, because he knows his own self, and in knowing that, he has known all others. ~ Rajneesh

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers. ~ Katharine Whitehorn

When you're free from the shackles of solitude you never get the sense any mountain is too high to scale, or any horizon is too far to conquer. ~ Saim .A. Cheeda

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. ~ Martha Graham

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are. ~ Dan Miller

Always seek the light even in the darkest atmospheres… that's how we become victorious. ~ Torron-Lee Dewar

The privilege to work is a gift.
The power to work is a blessing.
The love of work is success. ~ David O. McKay

You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change on a week-to-week basis. Those are the things that I do with every character. If I'm involved in a boxing movie, I go see fights and learn about boxing. It's part of what we do. ~ Jimmy Smits

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid. ~ Albert Schweitzer

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer. ~ Juan Manuel Marquez

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

I enjoy the school run and being a dad. Boxing will always be with me. I like that. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

Motivation is internal. It has to come from within you. Do not seek it anywhere else. ~ Abhishek Ratna

A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it. ~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Exercise your genius so often that you live in a perpetual state of runners high. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Don King is a damn sleezebag. King is nothing but a strong-arm man. He has taken his gangsterism and put it into boxing. ~ Don King