Quotes About Boxing

I'm confident that I can go in and fight for 12 rounds and win a decision.

It would be good to fight Roy Jones. I've always admired him, and I think this would be a great fight for the fans.

Roy Jones is a difficult fight.

When Haye runs into my right hand, he'll know.

Going to Russia is going to be nothing for me. I'm going to treat it like it's the U.S. because, at the end of the day, it's one man, one ring.

I think the Russian way of boxing and training goes straight to winning and less to heart and emotion.

I don't really believe in that ring rust stuff.

I do believe in ring rust. If you got it, you got it. And if you don't, you don't.

I always loved training to get fit, make all those sacrifices that you do, but it just wasn't there after Pacquiao.

A lot of people try to take away the things I have done and try to give other people credit for the things they have done and won't give me the same amount of credit in the ring for doing the same things or more.

But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

It would be a tough fight for either Scott Quigg and Carl Frampton against Rigondeaux. He's too good for his own good though and that's why he's been avoided.

My mom, she's just a baller in the ring. My scrappy side and my aggressiveness are probably coming from her.

When I'm in the ring and we're getting it on and people are screaming my name, it'll push me more.

I would love to box Dillon Danis. But do the fans want to see me box Dillon? Does Dillon put people in seats?

There are no secrets - I've been fighting around 154 lbs and 155 lbs, so I feel comfortable at this weight. This is my weight class.

Looking back, I couldn't get enough fights because Don King owned most of the top 10 fighters, and he never gave me a fight.

Women boxers prefer to focus on the win rather than the bravado. We've come a long way. In the '90s, you only ever saw women parading in heels and a bikini holding a scorecard. Now we're owning it; we should get some male models in Speedos to do the ring walk.

A guy like Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather is used to fighting 12-rounders. Put them into the ring for three rounds against a top amateur boxer at a much faster pace, and they'll lose a fight, and how bad is that going to make them look?

I fought Chris Eubank for the second time because it was the fight the public wanted to see, and there were 47,000 who turned up at Old Trafford. We packed them in because people knew we gave 100 per cent.

About 99 percent of fighters end up broke. F.I.S.T. helps them turn the page and find new goals.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

There's not a woman in this world that can beat me if we put on a pair of gloves and we fight. I've accomplished so much.

I did have a chance to box for Pakistan, but I've lived here all my life, gone to school; all my coaches and everyone's here, and I feel English.