Irvine Welsh Quotes

Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

If you think you're in shape, try boxing. You'll discover that you are not. It's the most physically challenging thing I've ever attempted, but I love it and I want to keep up some of the training.

Boxing never hurt me at all.

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

How would you like to find out how good my right is?

I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.

In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.

On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents.

The only thing I'm good at is boxing.

You're just taking punishment every day, getting hit all the time. That's something we're going to cut back on. I'll train hard but the sparring will be cut in half.

I found boxing so, so easy with incredible power, speed, and accuracy.

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.

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

We have to be extremely fit to race in F1.

No one is the same after I fought them - Hearns, Duran, Leonard. All of them.

That takes it out of you, throwing too many punches.

What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.

Wrestlers tend to do good in MMA because they tend to be just some tough guys. It's not a karate situation where they grew up their whole life punching the air; in a wrestling situation, you grab a hold of another human being every day.

I've been boxing since I was eight, and that's a long time to take punches day after day.

We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.

You don't just have to be skilled and talented at tennis, but you have to be so physically strong.

With dancing, it just brings out more flexibility, more core strength, and you definitely get a great workout.

Obviously I'm fast, and I'm going to have to utilize that speed, but I'm also going to have to be smart. I'm also strong, and I have a punch, so I'm going to have to use all my qualities to be able to fight against Angulo, and I just feel whoever's the best prepared that night is going to win.

If I get a guy that can take my shots and withstand my arsenal for the first round or two, I think you're going to see the best of me coming forward.