Quotes About Victory

The toughest fight I've ever had was T. J. Grant.

I've been in this position many times and I know it's these so-called easy fights that can be harder than the toughest ones.

I was lucky enough to play against Maradona. He and Ronaldo, when he was at Inter Milan - they were my toughest opponents.

Against Bermane Stiverne, they said he was going to be the toughest test, but I passed that with flying colours.

A lot of people don't understand that playing in the NBA, the toughest thing is to win an NBA championship. I was in the NBA 15 years. I'd been in the playoffs. I'd been in the Finals. But it took me 15 years to finally win one.

The three toughest fighters I fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson.

If you get into an armbar and someone locks it down on you, it's easy for you to tap out, but sometimes dealing with certain things, fighting through certain adversities, and being that I've been in some of the toughest situations in life, it just gives me an edge on my opponent that I'm going to torture him and beat him up.

Frank Mir is gonna be my toughest fight in my UFC career. It won't be easy.

The fight game has changed to where it's no longer the toughest is fighting the toughest to be the best on the planet.

Beating Chris Eubank in 1997 was a great win and the toughest fight of my life, and beating Jeff Lacy was great, too. But Mikkel Kessler topped it, winning all the belts and fighting in front of all those fans in my home town.

And that's what I want to do, fight the best guys, the toughest guys to prove I am the best.

That's the toughest part about coaching, I think, is that the longer you're in it, the more winning becomes, 'Phew, I'm glad we won,' and the losing is like just the most brutal thing ever.

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

World Championships is the toughest competition in the world.

The 2008 season was very long and extremely hard - probably the toughest of my career.

If they're not the toughest fights I can get, then give me a complete washup, someone that'll be an easy payday. But I'd rather have the toughest fights I can get so I can get to the title the fastest way possible.

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.

I haven't been fighting scrubs. Ever since I began I fought the toughest guys that they could put in front of me.

In the Olympics we are facing the toughest opponents in the world so that shows that you do have the chance to beat any team at any given day.

The first round is always the toughest one for me. Being in the final is probably easier. The more sets there are, the better it is for me.

I think everyone lifts themselves that little bit extra for the Tour de France, being the pinnacle of our cycling calendar.

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry.