Quotes About Boxing

A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.

I've beaten all contenders for 11 years. I'm not a robot; I'm fed up. My body's tired of it. I'm 36.

I feel good about my first professional fight. I was ready for it, and it was a good win for me.

When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I am just me. I like boxing and acting and doing my charity work.

I always had a fetish for fighting big peoples. My dad put me in the ring with much bigger guys. In my first fight, I gave the guy a 14-pound advantage.

Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.

You aren't going to show me something I haven't seen. Nobody can bring something to me that I don't already know, not in boxing. That's where I've mastered my trade, I can't talk in other fields.

I want that fifth championship. If that does not present itself, then I'm closer to retirement.

Boxing is one fight at a time for me. That's how I've always been, and that's how I was brought up.

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

Canelo is an elite fighter, and I never shied away from a challenge.

In boxing you can be the most talented fighter out there but you need people to watch and I'm fortunate that I'm in that situation.

My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work just as hard as the guys, or harder than them.

I've learned to be a different fighter, more responsible.

Canelo Alvarez is a very good fighter. I believe he's the best 160 fighter in the world. I don't think there's a fighter at 160 who can beat him.

To get a fighter like Usyk is a lie and for him to get a fighter to spar like me is a lie. I didn't need anyone to box like Usyk, what I wanted was southpaws to see the way they stand and the way they move their feet.

Right now, it's very difficult to single out one fighter, pound-for-pound, who is the best. Right now, it's very complex. Miguel Cotto, Mayweather and Zab Judah's a good fighter as well.

When I see a fighter gets into the ring, I not only see the fighter, but I see his wife and children. I care about what happens to them. I care about what happens to that fighter after he gets out of the ring.

I'm not going to say I'm not ready for a fighter like Canelo Alvarez.

I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

In boxing, if a fighter doesn't leave the sport on time, something bad is likely to happen.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. My hands are too small, and look at these short arms.

If a Hollywood studio needed a fighter to play the hero in an old-time boxing movie, the search could begin and end with John Duddy.