Evasive Maneuvers Quotes

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

There was a time in Amir Khan's career when you had to fight him; you couldn't really box him. You wouldn't see Amir take beatings: if he lost, he would just get caught and stopped. It was hard to catch him clean and keep up with him in the ring because he was such a dynamic fighter.

I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons...I saw evidence back in 1998 when we would see the inspectors being barred from gaining entry into a warehouse for three hours with trucks rolling up and then moving those trucks out.

You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

I'm a distance fighter - if you've seen me fight, I like ducking in and out.

Everyone has their own methods, when Muhammad Ali was coming through I am sure people said he leaned back too far, had his chin too high and dropped his hands too low. I am not comparing myself Ali, just showing that people have different methods that work for them.

Some running backs do different things to get away. My move is to spin.

They never clocked me on my way to the end zone. They never caught me because I ran scared.

It's an old Washington tradition to dodge and weave when you're under interrogation.

I don't like to have a strategy going into a fight. If he has a good right hand or a good kick or good submissions then I'll try to avoid that, but I like to be in a fight and I like to go into the fight. Even in jiu-jitsu I didn't think of pulling this guy into guard or take him down because I like to go into the fight and see what happens.

I like to attack the spaces, move around a lot and make cuts.

I just don't get hit a lot. That's what I'm good at.

I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.

When you fight a shorter fighter, you attack with uppercuts.

We always try the knockout, but it's hard to get it if the opponent always runs away.

Mayweather waits for you to make a mistake. He plays a similar game to me.

When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint . . . were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.

I like to be moved around a lot because the defense can never know or expect me to be in just one place. They can't really key on me. I can be freed up.

I'm pretty good on my feet. I'm pretty decent at bobbing and weaving, but there's only so long you can bob and weave when you don't have a good base.

Lyoto makes it very difficult to knock him out, he escapes well and moves very well.

I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.

I used to be more of a bruiser. I wanted to run through people. Now I try to run around them.