Quotes About Boxing

I've been doing this for so many years that I believe Gamboa can't bring anything to the ring that I haven't seen.

I wish my daughters would box. I'm so worried about the guys coming up to them. I would love them to be able to smack a guy right off a bar stool.

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

We need to get more people watching boxing. I love this sport and anything we can do to help it is great.

I was 10 years old and my hero was a local fighter, Juan Antonio Lopez, who would fight twice for a world title and not win.

Maybe judges like fighters who run.

Every time I go to the judges, I never get it.

I know I'm always ready when I jump into the ring.

I want to prove I'm the best junior middleweight in the world.

Being bullied is the reason I got into boxing. When I was 14, I was being bullied by a kid in junior high school. I wanted to do this the right way. So we went to a boxing gym. We boxed, I beat him up in the ring. He never bullied me again and I found my passion in the sport of boxing.

I love to watch that movie 'Cinderella Man.' He comes from the top and he goes to the bottom and he makes it back up to the top. I just kind of see myself as a guy like him.

I took boxing classes and karate when I was young.

You almost need somebody to say, look, another day, in boxing that happens all the time. The coaches will say I'll give you one more round, if it looks the same I'm not going to allow you to keep going out and taking damage.

Auditioning is like boxing: It keeps me hungry and intense, whether I get the part or not.

Without being disrespectful to Jimmy Kelly, I'd rather fight Shane Mosley than Jimmy Kelly.

I wanted to be champ of the world, but I kept hoping something would happen to Frazier. I didn't want to fight him. Nobody wanted to fight Joe Frazier.

Kevin Johnson is the kind of guy that gives guys trouble. He gives a lot of guys trouble. He gave Vitali Klitschko trouble.

I've been a heavyweight in boxing, in kickboxing. I'll do it in again in MMA.

No one's kicking down the door to fight Bernard Hopkins.

If you look at a lot of the best kicking footwork in the sport, karate has a huge influence. You can't be effective with it if you don't apply it correctly, however. You look at Conor McGregor, who is known for his boxing, but when I watch him fight I see a lot of karate movement with how he goes in and out.

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

In the ring, I never really knew fear.

My first memory of the Garden, it's probably like any other kid in New York: it's either watching the Knicks win the championship or Muhammed Ali against Joe Frazier.

I don't have any doubt in my mind: I could knock out any man in the heavyweight division.