Quotes About Boxing

Boxing is my true calling. I've found my purpose in life.

When I used to leave behind my wife and kids and go into training camp for nine weeks at a time, I felt it, especially if you're having young children and leaving them literally within weeks of them being born.

My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.

Going in with one of the best middleweights, I can take experience and the mental capacity to know I can and do belong, and bring a mental edge you can have every time in the ring.

My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.

I never dreamt to be headlining a pay-per-view card. That was never a goal.

I try to work out about four or five times a week. I'll do a little bit of cardio, half hour on the punchbag, or just go for a jog.

Lara and I both had success in the amateurs, and we have continued to have successful professional careers.

Wladimir, the Klitschkos, they're amazing. I like to watch them fight, especially Wladimir, but it's kind of boring. They are really good at what they do, but they are very careful.

I relate football with boxing, with a street fight. In both cases there is always one moment, a second, in which someone shows fear in their eyes, in their body. In football it's exactly the same.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

I'm a big cat. I'm 6-5. I'm not worried about weight. Nobody's coming to see a weight fight. They're coming to see the Big Dog fight.

I don't believe in the catch weight.

Middleweight is my category.

Boxing was really cathartic for me.

My life out of the ring caught up with me.

I want to be 100 per cent ready when they call on me and throw me in with the top dogs of the division.

You'll get shown up in the ring if you're not 100 per cent at all times.

I am one of the hardest-hitting light-middleweights they've had for centuries.

I've challenged Cain Velasquez to a fight three times. He's a little boy who doesn't want to fight. He said no, live on TV.

I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

That was my biggest dream, to one day become champion in MMA and boxing. That is my biggest dream.

That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.