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I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself
I guess it's rare, but even though I come from a broken home, I still believe I have the most amazing father.
I prefer to fight a bigger guy. I don't like fighting smaller guys; they give me problems with their agility.
I aim for the stars, and winning a world title will not be a fulfilment of a dream for me. It never has been.
I already know what boxers do; I've been in it all my life. I know what they do, and I know how they prepare.
Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don't need to be in with him. Dangerous fight.
Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.
One thing that I learned post-cancer is to enjoy every moment of every day. To find things to be grateful for.
I would be a dumb guy to say I don't like MMA because it's not boxing. You just have to appreciate everything.
This is boxing - you can't really say what is going to happen because anything can happen in that square ring.
I've never picked any of my opponents - from Amir Khan to Lucas Matthysse to Keith Thurman to Lamont Peterson.
Even on one leg, I thought I could knock Tony Bellew out. I was gutted when Shane McGuigan threw the towel in.
Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.
If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway.
When I was 14, I told my careers adviser that I was going to be a world champion boxer. Of course she laughed.
My boxing inspiration is to one day become world champion, to go as far as I can go and see where it takes me.
I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.
I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.
I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call.
There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.
Fishing keeps you alive, gives you time away - to enjoy God, the creations that He made. Because God made you.
I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.
When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.
I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.
Aggression means emotions. Emotions means you’re gonna get off your plan and that means you’ll lose the fight.
I really don't look at it as a real sport because anybody can come into MMA and learn that. You can learn that.
I'm just excited that the fans are going to get their money's worth, and you can't say that a lot of the times.
I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.
My grandmother was very strict. She and my mom wouldn't let me hang around the streets. It wasn't my lifestyle.
I love being in Puerto Rico. I am so excited that they embrace me, and I feel that I am giving back to my fans.
Once you share a ring with someone, go to war with someone... you have a different type of respect for someone.
You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
Let people live their lives, as long as they don't hurt anybody. As long as they don't destroy their own lives.
I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like
You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.
I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.
If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.
The one thing that's hurt in my career is people saying I don't want to come out of Manchester to fight people.
I've been giving a little gamble on the roulette and just sitting having a coffee with the fans, chatting away.
If they just reverse the division, ban the judges, and then it'll discourage other judges from ever doing this.
Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.
I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing - but in life.
People don't like to see a sloppy fight, to see heavyweights wallow around. They like to see exciting fighters.
There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me.
Whether someone like Klitschko wins, loses, draws, or gets knocked out in five seconds, he is still a big name.
As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.
You can't talk about Golovkin in the same breath as me. If he thinks he can beat me, he's not from planet Earth.