Cara Castronuova Quotes

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

You have to be super focused when you're boxing. After I've done a few rounds, I feel as if I can conquer the world.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.

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

I believe that every fight we've had is a big fight, and every fight we've had is a fight where I've learned a lot of things in the ring, I learn about myself, and it's sort of pushed me to know where I can go.

I feel like I learned that I am so much stronger than I ever thought I was, not just emotionally, but physically.

I hope Gamboa brings the best out of me so that people can see that I'm not just a power puncher.

A guy like Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather is used to fighting 12-rounders. Put them into the ring for three rounds against a top amateur boxer at a much faster pace, and they'll lose a fight, and how bad is that going to make them look?

I doubt Dereck Chisora can knock me out.

I don't see where Tyson Fury has boxed anybody of Wladimir's [ Klitschko] calibre to be able to get in the ring with Wladimir and do well.

Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

I know Haye's a good fighter as well and he beat Mormeck but Mormeck is not Enzo Maccarinelli and does not have the speed, stamina or punching power.

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.

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.

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.

It is an honor and a privilege to be of service and support; however, I realize people are not putting their confidence in me. Instead, they are actually learning to trust themselves. My job is to affirm and support them in the process and teach them to do what I do when I need strength: I begin within.

I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.