David Haye Quotes

Everyone has 4 ounce gloves on, and they're big boys, and they can throw hard.

It would be hard to throw a punch to someone who wasn't a boxer, who wasn't in the ring, and who didn't have on a pair of boxing gloves and who hadn't been training.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

In the beginning of my all my camps, I do just boxing.

The lighter I am going into a fight, the more likely I am to get ill.

I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I'm going to take a lot of punishment in the ring. That's my secret.

At my academy, I have a full 20x20 canvas but I don't have any ropes around it and do that for a reason so I don't get on my back on the ropes.

I don't look at my opponent's eyes in the ring. I watch his gloves so that I can block or avoid his punches.

We got four-ounce gloves here. It's not hard to knock someone out.

I've seen guys get hurt from strikes. I've seen guys get hurt from flips. It's the risk we take. I feel the fear of getting hurt will get you hurt.

I just stick to what I know, boxing.

People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing,... And people tell me they don't believe it. Am I not the most credible person to give you the answer to that?

Conditioning is the most important thing in MMA.

The experience I've had with Strikeforce kickboxing, K1, Strikeforce MMA, working with ESPN, working with Showtime, working with Japanese television, working with fighter camps from all over the world has given me a unique perspective.

I've fought on some big cards. I've fought in some big arenas, on televised cards, pay-per-view cards, whatever.

I can go and fight, take one punch, and have a concussion and start having issues with it, or I can wrestle my entire career and never have a concussion. It's just a hazard of the business.

Kids wake up in the morning and say, 'I want to be a UFC fighter one day,' just like they do in baseball.

All I can do is make sure Demetrious Johnson does the best he can on fight night and goes out and wins his fights.

Boxing never hurt me at all.

I always say if you can't knock someone out with four ounce gloves on there is something wrong with you.

Personally, most of my injuries were ones that I sustained during fights in the UFC, not in practice.

I'm very well-rounded. It's mixed martial arts.

I will always go for the submission instead of hurting my opponent.

No matter how much cardio you do - running or biking or whatever - it's never the same as being in the ring.

That was my dream since I was a kid, since I first saw a vale tudo event in my hometown of Sao Paulo. I wanted to compete.