Quotes About Endurance

I roll with the punches.

I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.

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.

I've been in the boxing ring, taking punches to my face. I've always got back up.

I guess God blessed me with a hard head, because I really didn't feel punches.

My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.

The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.

Punches never bothered me that much.

I've been boxing since I was eight, and that's a long time to take punches day after day.

The punches that don't knock you out are the ones you feel the most.

I have to take my time, use my punches, and use the ring.

I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.

Taking punches to the face at six in the morning, it's funny to hear that but, like, I'm grateful that I'm capable to do that.

I hold my breath with my punches in the fight and you know how that catches up with you.

I know what it's like to take punches.

Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales are the guys I want to base myself on. They fight with their whole heart and with such work-rate. They just don't stop punching. I want to be like that - never boring.

Part of my gift as a fighter is being a human punching bag.

Some of my fights in PRIDE, I felt tired. I would train on the punching bag and feel great but then get tired in my fights.

One thing you understand quickly as a fighter is that you're not punching with eight or 10 oz. Gloves. We've got 4 oz. gloves. It only takes one good shot for a fight to be over.

Criticism certainly doesn't affect my life, and whatever the pundits have called me, I'm sure they have been called a lot worse in their day.

I'm not always the guy getting knocked down a whole lot. My body probably hasn't been punished as much as the other guys have been. I think it's because I show up every day, and I try to do my best - give everything I have.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

I want to be a champion for a long time, and I want to take the least amount of punishment possible doing so.