Quotes About Boxing

I've got power. I don't throw hard every time. I just throw shots.

I wanted to show people the sweet science I have, from my amateur background.

Well, I've shown the art of counter-punching throughout my career.

I played a lot of the original 'Fight Night.' I think the depiction of Trinidad in the game was awesome.

It was always a goal of mine to bring a world title fight back to my city of Baltimore.

I want to break down barriers in boxing.

I always tried to be different from everyone else. Then I found out about boxing. That was the way I could be different from everyone else. I always went against the crowd.

After school let out around 2:30, I'd go straight to the gym to be the first person there, even though it didn't open until about 4:30. I was the littlest one and I was good, so they took me serious.

To beat Gervonta? That would be good.

I know there is not a featherweight out there who I couldn't beat.

I know I am more than capable of beating Carl Froch.

I was this big, heavy kid - nobody was at my weight at that age, so I had to fight 12-year-olds, 13-year-olds when I was seven years old. And what do you know, I was beating them.

I always said that I am all wrong for Froch. I have huge respect for him, but when we fight I am very confident in beating him.

I like the color green, and the WBC belt is green, so I can't wait to get that belt.

I would love to fight anybody at the welterweight limit with a belt.

Anyone with a belt in my weight division I want to fight.

I need that 147-pound belt.

I'm interested in any light-middleweight. If they've got a belt, even if they think they're the hardest in the division, I can beat all of them.

When I was young, I used to dream about seeing myself with the world title, with the WBC belt.

Chess is one of the means we have to save culture, such as Latin, the study of the humanities, the reading of classics, the laws of versification and ethics. Chess is now replaced by football, boxing or tennis, which are games of fools, not of intellectuals.

El ajedrez es uno de los medios que tenemos para salvar la cultura, como el latín, el estudio de las humanidades, la lectura de los clásicos, las leyes de la versificación, la ética. El ajedrez es hoy reemplazado por el fútbol, el boxeo o el tenis, que son juegos de insensatos, no de intelectuales.

When I watch a fight, I like to study one boxer's problem, solve it, and then communicate my solution vocally.

Anger, hate, blind temper, that crazy switch to destroy, all of it purified into discipline and control, the best side of boxing, Billy says.

He can hit a man in the liver so the blood flow stops. It takes a full second before the pain registers and the man falls. I've seen Billy hook men's livers and punch at their hearts. I've seen him break a man's nose in the ring, shatter an eardrum, close an eye. I've seen him hit a man so hard, fist to jaw, the man seemed to fall asleep before he fell, his body so relaxed his face looked calm even when his head slammed against canvas.