Manny Pacquiao Quotes

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Really, if you get in the ring and box with someone for real, I don't think it is a sport. As far as professional fighters, you are literally putting your life on the line.

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

Boxing is a noble sport.

When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war.

I would like to say boxing cannot compared with war. We have gloves on, we have cushions, we have referees, we have judges, we have ambulances there, the intention not to kill, we don't have steel there, we don't have bullets, we don't kill momma, kill daddy, kill baby, our intention is a sport, and we're not there to kill, so boxing cannot be compared in no way with machineguns and bombs and everything that used.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Some have made boxing a terrible thing to be around.

Boxers risk a lot in the ring. That's one of the things that attracts me to it. You want to see a knockout but I also really don't want to see people get hurt. It's this constant dilemma when I'm watching boxing. The only times I get nervous is watching a really big fight or when my brother is playing. I get to the stage where I'm actually shaking.

If you worry about hurting your opponent you are probably in the wrong game, because it can happen. I wouldn't wish ill on anyone. I wanted to knock him out, not hurt him badly.

There's no such thing as a lucky punch. You throw to hurt someone and if you hurt someone, job done.

The physicality of boxing is like nothing else.

I've knocked out a lot of my opponents.

There's nothing like getting in the ring.

We got four-ounce gloves here. It's not hard to knock someone out.

People can dress it up however they want to, but boxing is life and death.

Yes, I started off as a bare-knuckle boxer.

I think boxing is a fantastic sport.

That's the reality of boxing - it can be over in a flash.

I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.

Boxing is strange to watch. It's impossible to take your eyes off of it. Part of our brains like to watch violence. At the same time, it's horrifying to watch two men try to knock each other out.