It's a punishment game... only two boxers get in the ring. So when we get in the ring and we're not angry, then you're not a real boxer.
Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.
I don't feel that no fighter has the mental or physical agility to match Floyd Mayweather.
A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another.
I'm always having fun in training and in boxing. I think it's because boxing is my passion.
I might be the first fighter who has ever been suspended after retirement.
I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.
Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
I don't see a holiday as a time to break from boxing - it never stops.
In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.
It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the psychical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart.
Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
The first thing you learn in boxing is that there are NO guarantees.
In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
In boxing, it just seemed to me from the time I was a very small child, we have a peculiarly civilized form in that boxers don't screech and holler. They don't use weapons. When the bell rings, they fight; when the bell rings again, they stop.
Before 'Cinderella Man,' I didn't box. But I boxed. It's possible. You go and you work hard at things.
I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.
Just because I get in trouble or into a situation outside of boxing, don't let that make your statement on my boxing.
Every fight I mature. I'm getting older. I'm maturing as a man. I'm maturing more inside the ring, but at the end of the day I'm still Adrien Broner. I'm still that kid who's living his dream and I'm just having fun.
Boxing gyms are more than training facilities. They are sanctuaries in bad neighborhoods for troubled kids and shrines to the traditions of the sport. The gym is home. For many, it's the safest place they know.
For The Chicago Code, I did some boxing. It makes you stand differently when you know you can punch someone out.
The one thing I can't get enough of is boxing. I love sparring in the ring or just doing the training, and it's easily one of the most effective ways of keeping off fat.
I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.
On a personal level, I probably wouldn't want my boys to box professionally. But I do encourage them to get into boxing training - they both go along. It keeps them fit.
