Glover Teixeira Quotes

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.

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.

It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.

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.

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.

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.

Kell Brook is a strong fighter. He likes to dictate the pace, which most boxers like to do. He likes to use his jab to set up other punches, like the left hook.

My best weapon is probably my speed. I am faster than most middleweights, and I know how to use it.

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

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

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

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

I have to take my time, use my punches, and use the ring.

I had an exciting style, I was very aggressive, a body puncher, and I attacked all the time.

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

I can explode from both stances as a fighter. I can get up into my southpaw, give one good jab, sprawl, then get up into my orthodox, sprawl, go into southpaw and jab.

I do best when guys come at me. Stylistically, the Ricky Hatton fight is the best fight for me.

I'll take what I can get when I go high with a hook, but the side of the head makes a big target, especially if his hands are down.

I love it when fighters are textbook.

I'm a boxer by nature, so, obviously, the jab is always key - but it is nice to know you've got a right hand behind it.

I don't want to be chasing a big, awkward southpaw around the ring. I want a fight that people will enjoy.

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