Quotes About Boxing

My mum hates the fact that I fight. My sisters hate it, too, but they understand that boxing gave me a way out. It saved me. It made me someone. It made me the person I am today, mentally and physically.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

I was doing a lot of boxing through 'Lost,' thrashing a bag at least three days a week. If I had shirtless scenes, I'd do it six days a week.

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

No fighter has more fundamentals and overall skill than Danny Garcia.

I could put everything I got in the bank on my abilities and skill and will, and what I'm capable of doing in the ring.

Sometimes, when it comes to multiple-weight world champions, they have so much skill that it eliminates the excitement out of the fights.

People want to see real skill level, real Jiu Jitsu, real boxing, put together and mixed up. They want to see mixed martial arts. They don't want to see five minutes of holding. I think there should be points deducted when you do that.

Just my two cents: Even as a Christian, I love boxing because it's the ultimate stand-alone test of a competitor's skill and will. Just two opponents, lightly gloved, and a referee ready to jump in and stop it the moment he believes one opponent can no longer defend himself.

UFC is street fighting in a cage. Boxing is a controlled, skilled talent. There's no comparison.

Don't get me wrong, Anthony Joshua is Anthony Joshua, but he's not as skillful and as talented as me, you know? I'm just speaking facts.

Maidana has to make me respect his power and his boxing skills.

There's been a handful of guys who have had a good amount of success against Canelo. I'm a full-fledged super-middleweight. I possess a lot of the same skills and ring I.Q. that those guys do, but I'm 6-1 and a half.

I still can improve a lot on my defense. I just have to keep perfecting my skills and keep progressing. You're going to see a better Errol Spence next time I get in the ring.

I retired when I was 30, with all my marbles and a few bucks. But a lot of guys leave boxing penniless with no skills. Men in their 30s and early 40s, old for boxing, young in life, but also old in the job market if you're just getting started with no education. These guys need someone in their corner.

I've been in the ring with big-muscled heavyweights and cruiserweights, who couldn't punch the skin off a rice pudding, and then I've taken on light welterweights and light middleweights, and they hit hard, and you can see they're not trying.

And I love Evander Holyfield to death!

I personally hate to fight, but I love the science of boxing.

You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.

I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.

I love the whole world of boxing and the sense of community that exists there.

I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right choice.

Evander Holyfield's a great fighter, I watched him when I was a kid, I love the guy, but I had to do what I had to do. It's what I get paid to do.