David Haye Quotes

I have always been a puncher, but I tried to use my other tools and take my time, because in boxing, you need longevity. I can have a dust-up and knock anyone out in the first round, but you need more than that.

Listen: I'm a fighter. I'm a brawler. I'm a boxer. But I'm a technician as well.

I used to be a light-heavyweight, and I'm much faster than cruiserweight. That's the reason I didn't struggle with David Haye's speed, and David Haye is much quicker than Oleksandr Usyk with one punch and much, much, more destructive with the way he hits.

Rigondeaux is a high-class boxer. He is smart, has speed and skill.

I thought I fought a really good Orlando Salido. I never let him get into his fight. I knew what I needed to do against him and I think that was the difference. I was able to control the fight.

Badou Jack is a puncher, but so am I.

There's no other heavyweight in the division like me, especially when it comes into the athletic department. I'm the most athletic heavyweight in the division.

I remember I did a boxing class. I remember sparring one time, and the guy smacked me right in the nose, and I was just like, 'What is this? No. No. None of that.

You not only have to box smart, you have to be ruthless in the ring.

I wouldn't be surprised if I knocked Ricky Hatton out. It's something that people are going to read and think I'm ridiculous, but if you look beyond what you see with naked eye, every time he gets hit clean, he's hurt.

When I was an amateur, I would go to knock guys out in the first minute. When you get experience, you know it doesn't work like that.

I do think Briedis will be the toughest opponent I have faced in my professional career. He is 23-0, he's a cruiserweight, and he can punch, and that makes anyone dangerous.

Fighters like Bernard Hopkins can go on because their style is not based on reflexes and timing.

Maidana has to make me respect his power and his boxing skills.

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 I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out.

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

Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.

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

In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand.

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