Quotes About Boxing

I still have much to learn, especially about my defence.

I wanted to defend my British Title but no one would step up to fight me.

I carried the WBO belt for five years and defended it 15 times against 10 world champions.

I was born asthmatic so came into boxing with deficiencies.

Laila Ali is not my definition of the best.

Everything takes a vision and I have a very definitive vision of what my future will be like, in the ring and then outside of it.

I'm not going to lie: you do get down sometimes, but I wouldn't say I was ever depressed; that's too hard a word. But you do become bored, because all you've done in your life is fight and box.

I always designed my robes and how I would present myself at every fight.

There's a lot of politics in boxing and it's destroying the game.

Everybody knows the day I beat Diego Chaves, I became the WBA interim world titlist, which made me the No. 1 contender for whomever was the WBA titlist.

At my first amateur fight, I was seven years old. My dad took me to go fight San Diego.

I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.

Brandon Girtz is a tough man who can really throw the leather, but I'm on a different level.

Was there any danger I could have gone down a different path were it not for boxing? Of course.

I don't like to judge from tapes. The strategy starts in the ring.

I'll take what I can get when I go high with a hook, but the side of the head makes a big target, especially if his hands are down.

I train hard, but having a fight on the cards so often gives me targets and focus.

The people who have done it - I have been in there - a lot of people love boxing but they have not actually been in there, and haven't tasted the bitterness of a beating.

We're two different people, and we're two different fighters in the ring. You can look at my tattoos and say, 'Oh that's Jermall.' Our tattoos separate and identify my brother and I.

I'm taught to adapt and exploit every situation in the ring.

I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble family and was taught by my father to be a family man and be committed to them. I stepped into boxing following my older brothers.

I'm not going to try and go after Meldrick Taylor. He's too dangerous and much faster with his hands.

If Jermain Taylor was a bit fitter and he had a bit more steam in the tank towards the end, he might have survived and won on points, but he didn't have any energy left in the tank, because I sapped it out of him. I absolutely punched holes in him for the last three rounds.

Dad always enjoyed sports, and he decided to join a Guadalajara gym to learn how to box. What he didn't realize was that they didn't teach boxing at that particular gym - they taught 'lucha libre.'