Quotes About Boxing

Everyone wants to be a world champion, but when you take that first punch it will tell you if you really want to be in this sport or not. For me, there was no doubt.

Having been a world champion, I would love to go on and train a world champion too.

Being a world champion again is just a step closer toward my goal. I want to be a pay-per-view star.

I don't want to become world champion and lose it immediately. I want to become world champion, take over the division and take it from there.

It's definitely hard to live up to expectation. Especially early in my career, everyone was expecting so much from me, everyone was comparing me to my father. They didn't understand that they're comparing me to a world champion, which is very unfair as a novice.

Trout is no journeyman. He's a former world champion, someone who has a name and he comes to fight.

I told my mother I was going to become a world champion and buy her a home.

All my life I've always wanted to be a world champion.

I worked my whole life to become a world champion.

When I first started boxing, I said that I'd fight in The Olympics, become world champion, and retire undefeated.

The idea of being a two-time world champion is a big goal for me.

Carlos Molina is a great fighter. He's a world champion. I give him all the credit for even just choosing me to fight him and giving me the opportunity. I'm going to be well-prepared, well-disciplined in the ring when it's time to go.

By 2012 I'm going to be a world champion or knocking on the door for a world title.

I'm not losing no time soon, or ever, till I retire.

I boxed till my late 30s, so 47, that's impossible really to be at your best and if you aren't at your best you shouldn't be boxing.

I showed my chin was fine when I fought Tim Sylvia in the Philippines, when our fight was a no contest. He landed a good straight right hand at the end of the first round and I was fine. I survived and knocked him out.

If I didn't want to fight Carl Froch then I wouldn't have invested so much time and money into appealing with the IBF over the dubious outcome of the first fight.

You get the reality checks during the course of your adult life and your career, and you realize that as good as the money in boxing is, most of the time people most don't make Ray Leonard or Oscar De La Hoya money, even if you make very good money.

I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, 'If you're going to get hit as many times as I've been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you're not going to remember many names.'

My nose was broken six times, my hands six times, a few fractured ribs. Fifty stitches over my eyes. But the only place I got hurt was out of the ring.

Fighters like Bernard Hopkins can go on because their style is not based on reflexes and timing.

Boxing is all about timing. And if you take long periods of inactivity, you will be made to pay the price.

I didn't take the fight with Michael Grant because the timing wasn't right. They offered me a lot of money, but it wasn't in my best interest to take that fight. They were trying to use me to build up Michael Grant.

When you're actually boxing, unless it's a proper grudge match, it's less about beating the person up and more about being better within yourself. Being patient, timing things, like chess, so really, it's as much down to you as what the other person does - and that's life.