Lennox Lewis Quotes

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

I'm very experienced in four-round fights because of my amateur career, and I've got a high work rate.

I did a lot of smoker fights and fought pretty much every week since Pat wouldn't let me fight until he was sure I was ready. I was also boxing and so I had 30 unofficial fights or more of those.

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

Getting up to Zaire - getting ready to fight Muhammad Ali - I thought this will be a matter of just a little exercise. I'll probably knock him out in three rounds. Two, three - maybe three and a half rounds. That was the most confidence I had in my whole life.

Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

I've sparred with lots of people and played around with everybody.

Training's training; boxing's boxing. Everyone does the same kind of stuff: they spar, they train, they do whatever they do to prepare for fights.

I liked to watch the expression in the fighter's face change when you connected with him. You know when you connect in the right spot. It's like a tunnel vision.

When you're in the ring, you're ready to do your thing, but in a relaxed state.

I've had five submissions in the first round. I have 3, 4, 5 knockouts. I've had decisions. I've had grinding fights.

I just want to go out and compete. Plus the main thing is, at 55 I need a good amount of time to prepare just to make the weight cut. At 70 I can just take fights as they come and just compete as much as I want.

In the future, I want to have super-fights.

Fighting is different than other sports because you're not competing as regularly.

I was just want to get some good fights and as many as possible.

Ring rust is real. I've experienced it myself.

I want to fight a UFC fighter.

Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.

The thing that people don't know about me - I actually boxed amateur for a few years.

I stretch for a full hour before a fight because I know I'm going to take a lot of punishment in the ring. That's my secret.

My dad would always give me a Snickers before a fight. It gives me energy. It gives me everything I need to get the win.

I've had plenty of fights where the guy's virtually unknown and very tough. I mean a lot.

I'm a fighter. I'm not a promoter and I'm not a manager so I leave that up to my manager and my promoter and I just fight.

I've fought tactical fights in a gym, but never in a fight before.