Quotes About Combat

The most interesting thing about creating a knockout is sometimes you feel absolutely nothing. As soon as impact connects to their chin everything goes limp and their muscles aren't fighting back so you're punch is able to go all the way through.

If I hit Khan, he's going down. If the punch is in the right place, he won't get up. I can knock him out with one right hand.

I know how to use my fist, but only to punch people.

Tecia is a tough opponent, both standing and on the ground, and has evolved a lot. She hits hard and can take a punch.

It's very difficult to land a punch against Mayweather. But when I land a punch I'm going to hit him and not let him go. I will go after him.

When I was younger and I'd get into scraps, someone would throw a punch, but next thing you know it's on the ground.

When I beat GSP it's not like I was getting my butt handed to me and I just closed my eyes and landed a punch.

Shang-Chi can definitely throw a punch.

The heavyweight division, if you land a good, good punch in the right place, everybody is going to fall.

Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.

Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.

It's not fun to get punched in the face. It's hard, and there's no glory in it.

I like training hard. I like to punch the face. I like getting punched in the face.

I've gotten punched in the face before by Cena. His hands are like rocks.

People want to see fighters get punched in the face.

During the fight, if you feel something, you know it's pretty bad, because normally you don't feel anything. You get punched and elbowed in the face, you don't feel it until after the fight.

I think with fighting you have to have a desire to achieve something. You never see a rich kid get to the top of any combat sport because they don't have the drive. All the great boxers come from the ghetto. They all had nothing. They have the desire, the hunger but the rich kid is not going to get punched in the face. Why would they?

My mom loved when I started training judo and jiu-jitsu because that wasn't hurting me. But when I took her for my first MMA fight, she was like, 'Baby, you're not really going to do this, right? To get punched in the face, please stop with that. Do jiu-jitsu, it's good, it won't get you hurt.'

When I fought GSP and knocked him down I got really excited and punched myself out.

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

The best way to take a punch is to look at it. Honestly. Someone could hit you with the hardest punch that they have, but as long as you see it, it's not going to knock you out. It's the punches that you don't see that knock you out. So you could get tapped with a small punch, but if you don't see it, you're out.

Really, the only people that do want to fight me are the people that haven't been in there with me yet. It's a dangerous game and those punches aren't coming light.

You have got to not get hit. You could be the best puncher in the world, but if you're going to keep constantly taking punches you're going to lose your heart. Once you learn how to miss the punches and then you start to punch them, you become an all-around fighter.

This is boxing and it's all about putting your punches together perfectly.