Quotes About Boxing

My dad put me in boxing because I was this hyperactive kid always breaking stuff.

I absolutely love boxing. I live and breathe it.

I hope Gamboa brings the best out of me so that people can see that I'm not just a power puncher.

I like Britain because that is where boxing was born.

Kell Brook was saying he wants to forget about Amir Khan; he wants to fight Pacquiao and Mayweather. These guys don't know who Kell Brook is.

I'm a boxing fan. I've seen Kell Brook fight. I'm not one of those boxers who says he doesn't watch other guys fight or follow the sport. I do.

I'm not concerned about Kell Brook. People were asking me about his power, and I don't have much to say about that other than that I haven't seen anything on film that makes him different from anybody else.

I am made in Brooklyn, U.S.A. and I am definitely in the heavyweight-title house.

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

I know how hard it is to come back from a brutal KO.

Some people say the people I'm fighting are bums, but I don't see it like that.

I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history.

The reason why I'm such a successful pugilist is that no one knows my limitations better than me. I am quite good, but I am not the best in the world. But I am one of the best and I'm quite content with that.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.

Changing an opponent shouldn't be a problem. It sucks to spend a lot of time preparing for someone and then it changes up, but it's boxing. That happens in boxing and you have to accept that.

Boxing was a way to express my anger. All of a sudden, I was expressing anger, and I was good at it. I was like a Jekyll and Hyde. Boxing helped me because I was fighting the anger out. I was knocking guys out.

Sugar Ray Robinson is my favorite boxer of all time. He is a middleweight. I saw him and liked him.

I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster than me. That he was the best of the best. And I beat him.

In the 1940s, boxing was a mainstream sport and deeply ingrained the fabric of Harlem. Joe Louis ruled the world, but the local icon was Sugar Ray Robinson.

I liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.

I fought Sugar Ray six times. Pound for pound the greatest fighter who ever lived.

Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.

Ray Leonard is more the family man, kind of quiet. He's not as outgoing as Sugar Ray Leonard. Sugar Ray Leonard was very determined, very focused, very outgoing and very selfish, if you will. There are two different individuals there.

Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, pound-for-pound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss.