Stipe Miocic Quotes

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

I've fought a lot of prospects.

I'm confident that I can go in and fight for 12 rounds and win a decision.

I am like every single fighter - going into the ring, I have in my mind, 'Finish the bout before all the rounds are over, and to get the victory before that.'

Every fight has been hard. Every world title I've won has been hard fought, and every European title I've won has been hard fought as well.

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

Luis Sanchez will definitely bring a challenge, and I know he will try to bring the fight to me.

Listen, I'm the champ, and I'm not going to pick and choose who I fight.

My goal is to get all these fighters that everybody say I'm running from inside the ring with me.

I am going to smash B.J. Flores to bits and be the first man stop him.

A boxing ring looks different from the inside, particularly when it's shared with another man who is intent upon rendering you unconscious. There's no place to hide. Once a fighter climbs the stairs, he's roped in, unable to leave until his night's work is done.

It's a sport. Sometimes you lose and sometimes you win.

I love to fight, and I'm looking forward to being back in the ring, getting the victory, and moving on to challenge for the World Heavyweight title.

As an amateur, there are three rounds, and you have to give it all you have, throw as many punches as you can.

I've said it before, I'm not a matchmaker, I don't call the shots. I just prepare and fight the guys after I sign the contract.

Some people win 10, 15, and don't fight for the belt.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

There is no such thing as fighting on the winning side: one fights to find out which is the winning side.

In '82, I was a little too young, I was a little inexperienced, and I was more concerned with going the distance in the fight than going out and taking Holmes out.

There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.

I'm not fighting just to fight. I'm fighting to be the world champ.