Andy Murray Quotes

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

When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

Really, if you get in the ring and box with someone for real, I don't think it is a sport. As far as professional fighters, you are literally putting your life on the line.

If you worry about hurting your opponent you are probably in the wrong game, because it can happen. I wouldn't wish ill on anyone. I wanted to knock him out, not hurt him badly.

I understand why my mum and my wife can't bear to watch me fight. There's a lot of blood, a lot of pain.

Boxing is not for killing each other.

Fear is excitement without breath.

I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

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.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush. A horrible gut wrenching thing, but it's exciting.

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Producers get very jittery about things.

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.

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

You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.

There is nothing more terrifying than lying in the ring and feeling that your hand has gone numb.

I understand people want to see me get knocked out.