Boxing Championship Quotes

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.

I'm proud of my Italian roots, and I've always believed that I would get the chance to fight for the belt.

It's hard to know what's gay in life. Boxing. That's two men fighting over a belt.

Terence Crawford being across the street - I can't promise it's going to happen this year, but it's going to happen.

I always said the 155-pound belt's been in so many grubby hands, man.

If I'm watching my favorite boxer, and he's just won the heavyweight championship of the world, and he retires, it kind of makes the guy a legend.

I'd love to have a chance to fight in the World Series Boxing for women, but nothing has been done about that.

I actually won the Copper Gloves in Arizona.

I like the color green, and the WBC belt is green, so I can't wait to get that belt.

I'm looking to fight for a world title by the end of 2019.

It's a dream of mine to win the division's belt.

When I won the title against Jean Pascal it also won me fight of the year.

I want to bring a world title back to Liverpool and I would love to defend my world title in my own city.

I was making a film on Muhammad Ali in 1964, and I went to Miami to film everything around the fight for the world championship with Sonny Liston. I had the good luck of flying down to Miami, and there was one empty seat, and the guy sitting next to this empty seat was Malcolm X.

We came to 135 to snatch a belt, and I felt like I definitely wanted to do that. I'd be a two division, three-time world champion. So I thought it was a great idea to do, so we did it.

Now Mayweather has retired, Alavrez is the biggest name in boxing, and I'm looking forward to pitting my wits against him.

When I was young, I used to dream about seeing myself with the world title, with the WBC belt.

Everyone still wants to see [Floyd] Mayweather and [Manny] Pacquaio fight. When the talks start though, it always seem like it is all about Mayweather, and I think the people hate that.

Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful.

No matter what happens, I'll never be the greatest cruiserweight. That title belongs to Holyfield.

The fight for the Muhammad Ali trophy is about the best fighting the best.

I can take over boxing with a win over Pacquiao.

My second pro fight was at Madison Square Garden, on the undercard of Naseem Hamed's fight against Kevin Kelley.

I would love to fight anybody at the welterweight limit with a belt.

I don't care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.