Quotes About Boxing

It really wasn't until halfway through my career that I learned had to jab and to box and to kickbox.

Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.

Badou Jack is a puncher, but so am I.

Badou Jack is a great fighter, but there is a lot that he does that I do better. I have enough power to take him out.

Badou Jack ain't a trash-talker. He's very respectful.

I don't think I can get Jack Nicholson to come out and watch me fight.

I came here from Jamaica as a kid and didn't go to school, really, never had a great education. I was a little bit bad on the street, running around, doing this, doing that, and always getting into trouble. I was completely written off, so boxing has definitely saved my life.

A rivalry is me and James DeGale. That is ingrained in people now.

I didn't fool myself into thinking I was world class just because I'd beaten James DeGale.

Boxing was not as big as wrestling in Japan, but people knew Leon Spinks.

I've boxed on with cuts, broken jaws, everything.

You going to call me arrogant for believing in myself? Come on! It's a competitive sport. Rappin' is the closest thing to boxing. Jay-Z said that. You gotta fight every day.

When I won the title against Jean Pascal it also won me fight of the year.

When I boxed against Jeff Lacy, that was one fight that I was so proud of.

First and foremost, I love Riddick Bowe more than anybody else could love him. If I wasn't 100 percent sure that I was 100 percent sound, I wouldn't jeopardize my life by getting back into the ring.

I wanted to play for the Dallas Cowboys, and now I'm fighting in front of the Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones.

Rest in peace, Harold Lederman. When I was younger, my brother and I used to imitate his famous 'OK, Jim!' line while watching the big 'HBO Boxing' events. What an amazing character he was, and while I never met him, he seemed to be a lovely man.

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

During my time on 'Question of Sport', we had a lot of boxing greats - such as George Foreman, Marvin Hagler and Joe Calzaghe.

They had to debate whether Joe Frazier should be in the Boxing Hall of Fame or not. I'm making sure that it would be a felony to sit down and debate whether or not Bernard Hopkins deserves to be in the hall of fame.

Joe Louis was one of my first heroes.

When I say I am going to win a world title, I mean it; when I say I'll fight the best, I mean it; I say I'll fight Joe Calzaghe because I wanted to. When he vacated, I lost sleep over that. It had nothing to do with money or the belt. He was renowned as the best super-middleweight in the world and that is what I want to be.

Anthony 'Rumble' Johnson hits hard. You gotta watch out for him. He's got hammers as fists.

My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.