George Groves Quotes

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

I don't like my competition. At all.

I always got along with Borg, who was my greatest rival. People like to see me and Connors, me and Lendl, go at it. We didn't like each other.

I want the big fights.

I've seen Thompson before, as I keep my eye on everyone in the division, as I might one day fight them.

When everybody asked me when they were going to see more out of Terence Crawford, I always told them, 'Just put me in there with somebody.'

In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.

Kids always used to come up and ask me if I ever fought Mike Tyson, and I used to tell them that we couldn't because we were in different weight classes.

Whoever they send me a contract for, I'll fight him.

Against Callum, I had a few problems outside the ring.

I've fought the best guys in the world, and I've beat the best guys in the world.

I'm about fighting the best guys.

Boxing's been good to me.

I like him as a guy, but I'm going to knock him out - Roy Jones is just a prop in a fairytale ending to a great career for me.

I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

I look at him as some other person I need to beat.

We are stone enemies when the bell rings

We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of Floyd Mayweather, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao. We'll overstay our welcome.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.

I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like 'Raging Bull', 'Rocky', 'The Set Up', 'Fat City and Hard Times'. I just loved those films.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

I don't need David Haye and his antics to earn money.