Dana White 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.

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.

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

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.

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.

When you fight a shorter fighter, you attack with uppercuts.

Fighting is kind of like choreography. It's not just get in there and punching someone: you have to have choreography. Someone is going to hit high; someone is going to hit at the bottom.

I know how to box, how to move my feet.

When I come in throwing shots from different angles and with both hands, I've been knocking people clean out.

As everyone in boxing knows, styles makes fights.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

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.

I learned a lot from the Holmes fight. I learned about styles and the pressure. I'm more prepared now.

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

You watch Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather fight, Floyd can just throw a few punches, or he can do a lot of defense; he can slip a few punches, let Conor get a few shots in. You can't really do that in wrestling without getting scored on or putting yourself at risk.

Standing toe to toe with another fighter, I could probably do well, but a smart fighter is not going to stand toe to toe with me, and they're going to move to a weakness.

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 love fighting big guys because I'm fast. I'm not a big, light heavyweight. I can move. I can get inside on them. I'm inside, I'm wrestling with them, and they're just wrestling, but all the time, I'm chopping; I'm slapping.

I'm an overall sound fighter, a boxer-puncher.

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

Forget about jiu-jitsu and wrestling - I'm a boxing guy.

I'm a distance fighter - if you've seen me fight, I like ducking in and out.

He sells, he knows how to talk, he's smart, he's no fool. McGregor doesn't fight, he just reacts, he's never first to throw a punch. He goes in there to tease, not to fight. He's like Muhammad Ali.

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

I think Marriaga is a very good opponent for me. It's very hard when you have to find the keys to his defense. If people don't understand boxing, they don't know what he's capable to do. I understand it all.