Quotes About Boxing

If I can't get a unification fight, then there's other tops names, even though they haven't got a world title, ie Golovkins, stuff like that.

Everybody knows I want that unification fight with David Benavidez.

I am ready for a title unification fight with Keith Thurman and hope to be ready before too long for a move up to light-middleweight to meet Canelo Alvarez.

I can't understand it myself - how nervous I was when I took the floor for 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I walk out with 50,000 people gathered in the Millennium Stadium to fight Mikkel Kessler in the unification fight for the super middleweight division in 2007, and I feel great... and here I am, wearing tight pants and Cuban heels, and freaking out.

I've done everything, I've boxed at the Barclays Center in front of 15,000 people, I've been in a unification fight... I've done everything.

Everyone wants to see the heavyweight division unified. It'll happen.

I want to fight. I want to fight. I want to unify titles.

I want to go on to unify the belts at light-welterweight, and buy enough land and build houses for my entire family, and to own a farm myself.

I still have to unify my division and basically become the undefeated welterweight champion of the world. I can't lose. It is more added pressure, but it does make me work harder and keeps me more focused.

If Canelo wants to unify the division, he can fight me.

I've been talking about unifying the division for a long time.

I'm a unique fighter - one of a kind.

I want to become a star in the United States because I want to show everyone quality boxing.

I'm very confident in myself and in my ability, but in boxing there's always the unknown.

Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.

I do see myself being that big star. I do believe I have the skills and ability to be that big star. I just need to be me, be fan friendly and keep connecting with the boxing fans.

I been making history for Omaha, Nebraska, since I started boxing professional, and it just keeps going and going and going.

Just like many great boxers before me, regardless of where they're from, they're not always starting out with the nicest stuff. You don't need the latest stuff to get where you're heading - all you need is focus and drive.

People are starting to see that now and I've learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights.

I think that every boxer should understand he's on the pedestal for a short span. It's best that you use boxing and don't let boxing use you. Use boxing to sell, because people are selling you through your boxing career, so you have to learn to sell yourself, and you'll never starve.

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

I've always said boxing will not retire me, I will retire from boxing, and I stand by that statement.

I will be dictated to by nobody. I'm the man. And if anyone can prove me wrong, their chance is inside a boxing ring. You don't like it, change the station.

I do a bit of boxing in the off-season to stay fit - it's a different kind of fitness.