Boxer Quotes

I know that if I am not at my best and I do not perform I will lose. I'm never over-confident. Over-confidence is a weakness because it stops you training as hard as you should. It has happened to fighters like Naseem Hamed and Lennox Lewis. Complacency beats fighters.

It would give me a terrific sense of satisfaction to be the man who sent both Eubank and Benn into retirement. Benn doesn't need me to tell him that he's over the hill because, deep down, he knows it.

I respect Floyd as a fighter but come 5 May, he's going to be hurting for weeks.

Oscar De La Hoya

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.

MR BROWN You know that the policy in Iraq cannot succeed. Democracy cannot be exported with a gun. You can be the Great Leader and the Great Peacemaker

I'm born in Britain – but my family were born in Pakistan. When I fight, in the crowd you see Pakistani people and you see British people – they're all mixed together and they support Amir Khan. On my shorts, when I fight, I have the Pakistani flag on one side and on the other side I have the Britain flag – to promote the two countries together.

As a champion, you carry an air of invincibility... folks see you as bigger than life. When you lose, though, they feel as though they'd been fooled, suckered into thinking so highly of you; that's why folks jump off that bandwagon quick as can be, and then throw stones at it.

I have the heart and what its got to be champion and I did it, I proved it tonight again.

I was leaving the hotel to get to the fight when my phone went and someone said 'Hello Ricky, it's Tom'. I said 'Tom who?' and when he said 'Tom Jones' I told him to eff off! I thought it was a wind-up!

I don't like Marvin. Never have and never will. I just want to tell you something. Get there early and sit tight. Don't blink. You might miss the fight.

It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.

I will not quit until I am a five-times world champion.

After defeating Lou Savarese

Evander Holyfield

I feel in an executioner mood, I am going to punish him and punish him slowly.

Bernard Hopkins

It was my ambition to fight Becerra. I didn't care where. But that very year Becerra was unlucky enough to be responsible for the death of Walt Ingram, whom he had boxed in Mexico. I don't think he wanted to fight too much after that. He continued for another year, or until he himself was knocked out over the weight in Mexico by Eloy Sanchez. Then he did retire.

I'm not the best, I'm just a guy who's willing to fight the best.