Marvin Hagler Quotes

They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I'm going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what's the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam.

I've always wanted to fight. I love to fight.

I love football and basketball but fighting is the original, most primitive to our nature.

One of the things I always tell people is that when it comes to fighting and fight week, then I'm there for one purpose, and that's to fight and get the hell out of dodge.

I was just want to get some good fights and as many as possible.

Fighting is what I love to do.

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.

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

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.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

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

Sports is like a war without the killing.

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.

It is hazardous to engage an enemy who longs rather for battle than for victory.

'Tis no festival unless there be some fightings.

You put me in there with anybody at '35 or '45, I get on your back, I take you down, it's going to be a long night and it's a dangerous situation to be in.

But wrestling used to be the same as boxing or mixed martial arts. It used to be about conflict, having a fight, who's going to win.