Quotes of: Marciano Keyword

Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.

Vijender Singh

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

Barry McGuigan

You got to look nice. If you got 10 kids, they'll talk about you if you don't look nice.

George Foreman

Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.

Archie Moore

If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway.

George Foreman

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

George Foreman

When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.

Nonito Donaire

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

Lennox Lewis

Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life.

Thomas Hearns

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

Barry McGuigan

I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.

Wladimir Klitschko

I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that.

Alexis Arguello

I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.

Larry Holmes

My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

George Foreman

I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

George Foreman

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Roberto Duran

Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters.

Roberto Duran