Tony Ferguson Quotes

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

I say the sweet science is to understand not only how to fight coming forward, how to be a big puncher, but also understand, if you run into a guy who can take your punch for the first time, how to react.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

When I step into the ring with someone, this has got to be their vacation spot, but my home turf. So I go the opposite side seven rounds doing the same thing. Skipping, skipping, skipping. Then I go seven rounds going both ways. Skip to the left, skip to the right.

I have to take my time, use my punches, and use the ring.

Range control is a big part of Floyd Mayweather's arsenal.

There's always great things that champions do. It can be inside fighting, this person uses his range well, this person has a great right hand - anytime you fight a champion, there's multiple things that they do well, and you have to try to take those strengths away.

If you move in and out, throw shots and use angles and the guy's feet are planted, you look a lot better.

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with.

I think Marriaga is a very good opponent for me. It's very hard when you have to find the keys to his defense. If people don't understand boxing, they don't know what he's capable to do. I understand it all.

Canelo's going to have his moments. I'm not saying he's not. But I'm going to have my moments. It will come down to who can finish off their moments and finish the fight the best.

Boxing is the sweet science. You hit and not get hit. There's no reward for you to hit me more than I hit you other than on the scorecards.

When I'm fighting, I'm trying to find a reaction. I try to make the guy move; I try to make him do things that I want him to do. If he likes moving a certain way, I try to set something up so I catch him if he moves that way.

I've been training my whole life with southpaws. It's annoying to fight a guy who's a southpaw, but nothing that I haven't see.

Canelo is a counterpuncher, a boxer, and that's what I am.

In boxing, some fighters have good chins. You just have to be persistent and continue following the plan and trying to catch them nicely and, obviously, hope to be knocking him out.

Sparring with southpaws have been different but nothing to worry me.

I do best when guys come at me. Stylistically, the Ricky Hatton fight is the best fight for me.

Froch is like a train who just comes forward but Groves will move about, fake and feign and his good footwork is a big part of his game.

I'm a boxer by nature, so, obviously, the jab is always key - but it is nice to know you've got a right hand behind it.

One thing for sure is that I am not going to attempt to knock Barrera out. My boxing ability and my speed are the attributes that will get me the win.

With me, I come in the ring and start thinking right away. My thought process is just to put a guy down. I'm like a technician and learn to break it all down - from head to toe.

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.