Boxing Training Quotes

At the end of the day, I am the cash cow in women's boxing.

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.

A lot of boxers have too much on their plate.

One thing that has irritated me in the sport of boxing since I stopped is I'm really surprised that no one has come along to excite me like me.

I always thought I would be a boxing champion.

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.

Fighting in a heavier weight class is a big achievement on its own.

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.

Dad couldn't train me. He was too high-strung, like, 'Throw your jab!' and I'd start crying.

It's boxing. It's about getting people interested. If I didn't say some stupid things from time to time, there wouldn't be that many people interested in me. But I let my fists do the talking when the bell rings.

I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

I've been boxing for 25 years and I need exciting fights.

A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.

I first got into boxing when I was quite young. I was about 12 when I won my first boxing match.

I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

I train myself. I don't have trainers who want hundreds of thousands of dollars to train me. I hire who I want to put the grease on my face, to rub my neck and rub my back, to take my mouthpiece out and rinse it off and put the mouthpiece back in. And then I go about my business. And if they want to say something, they can give me little reminders. All you need are reminders. You don't need 'big-time' trainers.

When I was younger, growing up in Pittsburgh, they had a 'Golden Gloves' program through the Boys and Girls Club. In Pittsburgh, New York, Philly, Washington, those areas, I would go and spar at competitions.

I've got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I'll make it extremely hard.

I wanted to fight guys like Shane Moseley, Miguel Cotto, and Alvarez.

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 was fighting at 125 pounds when I was 15 years old... then became a champion at 126 pounds at 25 years old.

I'm more vicious in sparring when I am around 160 pounds or coming down from heavier than that.