Muhammad Ali Quotes

You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

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.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with.

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

I sting like a butterfly and punch like a flea.

I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.

As everyone in boxing knows, styles makes fights.

Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.

I'm pretty good on my feet. I'm pretty decent at bobbing and weaving, but there's only so long you can bob and weave when you don't have a good base.

The thing is that anybody in the heavyweight division can be champion any day just because of one punch.

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

That's boxing - one punch can win a fight.

My dad was a prize fighter in his youth. My boxing skills are very limited. I did train for most of my youth but couldn't really see the point of getting punched in the head. I'm a lover, not a fighter, but I do enjoy the sport in its purest form. As a child, my heroes were my dad and Muhammad Ali.

It is tougher to control range on a guy who is as tall, lengthy, and busy as Amir Khan, who has a very good jab.

I can definitely box on the front foot as well as the back foot. I don't think that's really an issue.

Fighting Manny Pacquiao is like playing a very fast game of chess. He was very fast and sharp. You have to be alert at all times and on your toes. There was a lot of incoming.

I'm not going to throw haymakers the whole fight; I'll gas out.

I look out there, and I see that Floyd Mayweather stands head and shoulders above everyone else. He's another fighter I would like to base myself on because he's got incredible fast hands and feet. He's flashy but, man, is he good.

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

I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.

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.

Everyone has their own methods, when Muhammad Ali was coming through I am sure people said he leaned back too far, had his chin too high and dropped his hands too low. I am not comparing myself Ali, just showing that people have different methods that work for them.