Boxing Conditioning Quotes

I wouldn't be surprised if I knocked Ricky Hatton out. It's something that people are going to read and think I'm ridiculous, but if you look beyond what you see with naked eye, every time he gets hit clean, he's hurt.

There's not as much oxygen in that hot gym and I think it's great for conditioning. I believe in a lot of boxing. You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring with another fighter, it's a different story. Punches are coming at you, there's physical contact, muscle against muscle.

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.

Fighters like Bernard Hopkins can go on because their style is not based on reflexes and timing.

This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn't matter how hard you train or what.

You know if you want to be a boxer the first time you get hit on the nose.

I'm a lot more comfortable in the ring. I'm comfortable catching punches, and defensively, I feel like I've improved a lot. I am banking on my athleticism. I've worked hard on my footwork.

Mayweather is Mayweather. He's always good. He stays in shape, takes care of himself.

When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

I will beat Carl Froch every night of the week and it doesn't matter if it is the best Carl Froch or the worst Carl Froch.

I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.

I feel like anyone at middleweight, when I have a full training camp, I'm going to go out there and finish them. That's my mentality.

I have experience of boxing. I know what it is like to be hit. Half my life is boxing. I start fighting when I am 16.

It's not uncommon for some Khmer boxers to fight with dangerous frequency, sometimes as often as weekly or bi-weekly, getting up to three hundred or more fights in a career, with the length of a career varying from fighter to fighter, some engaging in bouts far past their prime.

I have always been a puncher, but I tried to use my other tools and take my time, because in boxing, you need longevity. I can have a dust-up and knock anyone out in the first round, but you need more than that.

I want the best and to get the most out of my short boxing career by fighting the best I can.

In the amateurs we fought four or five times a week so we always had different opponents.

In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.

From the beginning, when my brother Vadim first took me to the boxing gym at 10, I was able to punch hard, and the coach always put me with older boys because of that.

I also watched boxing all the time and Tuesday Night Fights on USA and just kept hitting my heavy back in the garage.

As an amateur, I trained in some real hard schools of knocks. In Cuba, they would have judges on three sides of the ring just for sparring sessions. They train under exactly the same conditions as they fight, and it was a great experience.