Quotes About Boxing

Floyd can say whatever he wants about me. He knows that I gave him the toughest fight of his life.

Meldrick Taylor deserves the rematch. He gave me the toughest fight of my career.

Khan was one of the biggest fights of my career and also one of the toughest in my life. He's a very good boxer.

It would clearly revolutionise boxing if we could have a tournament in every division.

Outside boxing, I did well in cross country competitions and I won a schoolboys' doubles badminton tournament at once. I was pleased because it was a hobby to me.

If they let people go fight jiu-jitsu tournaments, they can't stop me going to fight a boxing fight.

I like reading autobiographies and magazines like Boxing News and Men's Health, especially when away for tournaments.

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.

The corner is there to help you clean your cuts up and put your Vaseline on, not to throw in the towel.

Even on one leg, I thought I could knock Tony Bellew out. I was gutted when Shane McGuigan threw the towel in.

As for my all-time sporting hero? There is one who towers above all. I first knew him when he was called Cassius Clay but it was when he changed his name to Muhammad Ali that I became mesmerised by him.

Boxing has definitely allowed me to focus on something other than just creating content which I think we've seen historically can be so toxic.

Why would I stand there and trade punches and try to knock out George Foreman?

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.

Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.

I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.

I love to box. I once took a kickboxing class in college and got totally hooked.

The rope at my back and the pad on the floor, the smack of four hammers, new bones in my jaw, the guard in my mouth, my tongue startin' to swell. Fightin' was livin'. Boxin' was real. Fightin' was real. Livin' was … hell.

He was some sort of boxing champion, she told me the night she took me out to celebrate my graduation. He was always punching someone in the nose. Macho, I said. No, she said. It was the clarity of expression that appealed to him.

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

I want to shut Camacho's mouth, quiet him for good.

Centeno needs a fight like me on his resume, so I have to be on my A-game to shut his gameplan down.

He is a loudmouth who cannot fight and has made a good living by criticising me. I want to shut Eubank's mouth forever.