Georges Carpentier Quotes

The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.

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.

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.

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.

Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

GGG is a great fighter, but he hasn't got the ability that Kell has - Brook is the far superior boxer.

I tell the guys all the time, 'if you have a good puncher, all the way in or all the way out.' Don't stay there and box.

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

My best weapon is probably my speed. I am faster than most middleweights, and I know how to use it.

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.

As everyone in boxing knows, styles makes fights.

It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.

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.

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

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.

You have got to not get hit. You could be the best puncher in the world, but if you're going to keep constantly taking punches you're going to lose your heart. Once you learn how to miss the punches and then you start to punch them, you become an all-around fighter.

Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It's about poise and grace under extreme pressure.

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

I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.

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 have great striking, really great striking, and I hit very hard.

I had an exciting style, I was very aggressive, a body puncher, and I attacked all the time.

I've been working a lot on my jab.

Dos Santos just has really good movement. He's really quick with his hands. He throws good combinations, and he has a lot of power. Combining all of that, it makes it really tough for somebody to fight with him.

It is tougher to control range on a guy who is as tall, lengthy, and busy as Amir Khan, who has a very good jab.