Quotes About Heavyweight

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

I might even be at heavyweight one day; I don't know. You guys know our eating habits is bad down in Hawaii, so your boy might get big, and we might make history.

He spouted out, 'Richy, I've just been talking to a bloke from Blackpool on the phone, there's a boxing show tomorrow night and they are desperate for a heavyweight. Will you fight?' I retorted, 'Are you joking. I haven't trained for four months; I'll be blowing after thirty seconds.' He pleaded, 'Howay, man. It'll be a night out down Blackpool.

I think George Foreman must have gained about 350 lbs and is slow as ever.

A lot of people don't believe in me. They think I'm too small for heavyweight. Just like a lot of people told me long ago that I shouldn't box. That I wasn't going to make it. I just knock my head and say I'm capable. I can do it.

Every boxer needs to be able to punch, but none more than me, and that's because I'm not that skilful, and I'm one of the smallest heavyweights you'll ever see.

It's impossible not to dream of Greg Hardy vs. Jon Jones for the heavyweight title after he's done finishing off the light heavyweight division.

I'm here to be the greatest combat sports heavyweight of all-time, and if that includes taking out Jon Jones to do that, then that's what I've got to do.

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

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

Fabio Maldonado jumped up to heavyweight for our fight, and while he wasn't ranked, he is a super-tough dude and had never been knocked out before.

There are hundreds of young fighters whose handlers believe them to be a future world champion or the next great heavyweight or another Sugar Ray Robinson. The young men who inspire these beliefs are known as 'prospects.'

Whaddya know? I'm the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world.

Me becoming the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world, it's a blessing.

My goal is to become the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world.

Nobody will hold it against him if he cancels the fight with Dereck Chisora - the public aren't interested in that fight; nobody knows who he is. It is pretty sad but shows the mindset of Wladimir Klitschko and why he will go down in history as a heavyweight who just fought the worst possible people out there.

Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.

My motivation is being unified heavyweight champion of the world, making New Zealand and my family proud.

The days of the heavyweight champion as civil rights leader are long gone. You think you'd see Ali rolling around on the floor of an ESPN Zone? I don't think so.

I need to become the undisputed heavyweight champion. As soon as I become, I will turn back and say, 'Guys, thank you very much for your participation. Thanks everyone.' I will thank the Lord, I will go to the ground and say farewell, and I will go home.

As a heavyweight, I've not missed dieting. Those days where you're sore or tired, it makes me feel happy to know I can eat a bar of chocolate.

The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.

Hemingway and Norman Mailer might have disagreed, but there is no heavyweight champion of literature.

I always support British athletes of all sports, including Tyson Fury. I think he's a great boxer. However, if he's calling out UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez, then quite frankly, he's living in a fantasy world and needs to come back to reality.