Quotes About Boxing

I think the reason I hadn't fought was just the aftermath of the Botha fight. You put so much into a fight, and people just talk about it like it was a bit of a farce or something.

When I fought Holmes, I feel I was a better fighter than he was. I was just so caught up in what was written about the fight - I got caught up in that whole thing.

I have been fighting the best. I am just 26 and have fought in the biggest arenas.

I fought in Detroit 23 times.

I fought from the time I was eight years old, sometimes three, four fights a night. We did it to eat, and we did it because we were just tough kids.

You don't compare a guy with 30 or 40 fights with a guy who had 200 fights and fought over 25 years.

I've been in the ring. I've fought in a title fight. I know what it is like to lose a fight. I know everything a fighter has been through.

I would have loved to have fought 15-rounders, because I always come on strong at the end.

I fought on the undercard of a show headlined by Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather Jr. There was almost no one in the arena then. But when Hatton and Mayweather came out, every seat was filled. There had to be 16,000 or 17,000 people in there. The place was going crazy.

I've fought in London. I've fought in Los Angeles. I've fought in New York.

There have been times I've fought just to fight.

I fought every kind of boxer.

I think, for me coming into the game, the way that I came into the sport and the business being ran the way that it was ran for me, I was always told who I would fight, and there was never really ever a fountain of guys to pick from.

I'm a lot more comfortable knowing that like the body frame, like these 160-pounders, I'm still a lot bigger than those guys. I'm stronger, I'm faster.

Yeah, I mean, I was growing up with the 'Rocky' movies. Im a big fan of the franchise. My father was a big fan of the franchise, too.

What happened with Gutknecht does frequently cross my mind, but I can't do anything about my situation. I need to carry on boxing so that's what I've been doing.

Everybody's got their ways of doing things and for me I've got to stay fresh, fly and flashy. So I'm going to make sure I'm fresh, fly and flashy in the ring too.

I thought at times that I was too aggressive in the first fight and I was able to let Mayweather move around a little bit too much. I will be much more careful in the ring for the rematch. I won't load up so much, but instead fight fresher and with more distance.

It's boxing. It's about getting people interested. If I didn't say some stupid things from time to time, there wouldn't be that many people interested in me. But I let my fists do the talking when the bell rings.

There was one point in time that I wasn't fighting, and I was frustrated and I was getting in trouble.

A lot of fighters get frustrated when they're not active.

I left school at 16, with GCSEs, and went boxing full-time.

If you look at Joshua's six opponents before he fought for the world title, Wilder's six opponents before the world title, Tyson's six opponents. The guys I fought and the guys they fought, it's the difference between night and day.

There is no bigger fight than Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder.