Quotes About Boxing

I believe when you have your hands on four or five pots at once, you can never have a firm grip on one pot. My one pot is being a boxer.

Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.

Kevin Lee is really tough. He has some flaws in his game that we can work with. I think he mixes up his boxing and his wrestling really well. He takes you down, he unleashes some strong ground and pound. However, he usually starts a round strong and then starts to fade. In five rounds, I think I can take an advantage of that.

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

I moved up to 130 pounds hoping champions in this division were not cowards like those at 126 pounds. It looks like I was wrong.

I've not been paid millions of pounds for any fights. I've not made any money out of boxing.

After a weigh-in, you drink and put on the pounds. But it's just fluid, not muscle, so you get in the ring and feel flat.

I was fighting at 125 pounds when I was 15 years old... then became a champion at 126 pounds at 25 years old.

I want the big money fights if I'm going to make 147 pounds.

Moving forward at 160 pounds, I feel like this where I should have been the whole time.

I have to continue to be different and stand my ground in this division until I'm done at 154 pounds.

Although I do have advantages in the division, 154 pounds is getting kind of tough to make.

It's not just boxing I'm considering, it's K-1 too. That's something I've always liked.

As a kid, I loved contact sports, especially American football and boxing.

There's so much drama in the lives of boxers. It's a contact sport and everyday they beat up people for a living.

When you're No. 1 contender for five years, and you know who's controlling things, you'll do something you're not proud of.

I lost to Lennox Lewis in a very controversial decision.

Everything controversial is good for boxing.

I know I've cut corners in every single fight I've had because I've used my ability to get through.

Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.

Boxing is systemically corrupt.

I understand this business. Sometimes there's a lot of corruption. It's boxing.

I'll fight anyone I can beat. I'm a businessman first and a boxer second. I'm looking for the readies. The aim is to win at all costs.

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very, very hard.