I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.
At the end of the day, that's just boxing - it's a different sport altogether. But when I finish fighting for the UFC, there are so many different options I have. Boxing is another option I could take.
I've never been the biggest boxing fan. If I know the guy I will watch him. But if it's two great fighters and I don't know either of them then I won't bother.
Ali could only fight a couple of ways. I can fight five or six different ways.
I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
I first got into boxing when I was quite young. I was about 12 when I won my first boxing match.
Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
I fought Sugar Ray so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.
I've been boxing for 25 years and I need exciting fights.
Your grandpa was a boxer in his youth. Sexiest thing I'd ever seen, let me tell you. He wore these short little shorts, and sweat was always dripping down his hairy chest.
I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.
It's only boxing, don't worry about it. Let's get it on!
Compared to boxing, acting is more difficult. I have learnt martial arts and boxing since childhood. So, they were easier.
I'm telling you, Amir Khan gives Floyd Mayweather problems.
If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.
I could see myself going to lightweight, but I love welterweight.
I know what I'm worth, and I know boxing.
He knows I'm brutal. He's knows I can punch hard. He knows if I connect on his chin, at any one moment, 12 three minute rounds, he's going to be in serious trouble. If he's not on the floor, his legs will do a funny dance.
Boxing is a family tradition. The last five generations down to my dad have been fighters.
When we first started in Huntington Recreation with John Capobianco, we put four kids in the Golden Gloves finals. We didn't even have a ring. We trained at Stimson Junior High School. They give us the gym three nights a week. We used to box in the gym - no ring, just on the gym floor.
Fighters like Bernard Hopkins can go on because their style is not based on reflexes and timing.
I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.
I think he's a special fighter, I'm a big Canelo fan, but I think he's a special fighter at middleweight and I think a lot of his advantages he has at that level, he'll lose when he steps up to super middleweight.
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.
