Quotes About Boxing

I can box. I can hit hard. I've got different angles.

The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.

Listen, if anyone hits you on the chin you are probably going to get hurt.

If I hit the Klitschkos with the same shots I was hitting John Ruiz, both of them would go over.

I'm a hobbiest. There's a lot of hobbies that I have. But I've never devoted anything that I've devoted my time and effort to the sport of boxing. It consumes who I am as a person and as a fighter.

No one's going to hold your hand in the boxing business. And the people who do end up ripping you off.

George Foreman is back and he's in the middleweight division. That's the way I feel about fighting in my hometown.

The thing about boxers is that there's respect there. You beat me, and I may not like it, but you know what, deep down inside, I respect you. And that's the code of honor.

It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall.

I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time - I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked.

As far as moving to 130, I got tired of waiting for the other champions, none of whom wanted to fight me. I'm hopeful that with the move to 130 lbs. will come better fights, particularly against the other champions, so we can make our dream of becoming undisputed champion.

I was hoping David Haye would beat the fight out of me in the second fight.

Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.

Who knows how long I have got left. I could be like Bernard Hopkins.

Before boxing I was a car salesman but I was horrible at it and had to make a living elsewhere.

Being a household name throughout boxing, that matters to me.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

I never had the opportunity to run up and hug my mom and tell her 'I love you,' and she tells me she loves me and hugs me back. I would want her to come to my fights and support me, but it never would happen.

You've got to be humble; you've got to be nice to everyone. But when you're in the ring, that's the time to let your fists do the talking, and that's the time for action.

Before the Roy Jones fight, I knew I was going to retire because I couldn't train, my hands had gone, and the hunger had gone.

I'd love to have a chance to fight in the World Series Boxing for women, but nothing has been done about that.

At the beginning, my dream was to become a world-class boxer, but then I stepped into MMA. And when I stepped into MMA, it was to have fun. I reminded myself of what was the purpose, of what was the goal: to have fun.

I've won junior titles, ABA titles and boxed for England all over the world against future Olympic champions as an amateur - and then beat world-class fighters as a professional.

I said Lucian Bute is a world-class fighter.