Liam Smith Quotes

I'm looking to fight for a world title by the end of 2019.

The fight for the Muhammad Ali trophy is about the best fighting the best.

This is boxing, everybody fights everybody.

It's never been Badou Jack or James DeGale that I want to fight, it's the World title that I want; it doesn't matter to me who it is.

Just like footballers want to play at Wembley, the Nou Camp and the Bernabeu, boxers have their dream arenas too.

I would love to have gone there, fight at Madison Square Garden or a casino in Las Vegas, but there are no American heavyweights now who can pose a challenge to me.

This is what boxing always needs - two young, undefeated fighters willing to risk their '0.'

The first fight I ever saw live was the first Castillo-Corrales match in Las Vegas in 2005.

I don't ask to fight anybody. All I ask is to fight the best fighters in the world.

I'm ready to fight anyone, top 10, top 5... I deserve a chance at the belt.

I want to fight the best guy. I don't want there to be any question that I beat the next best guy in the division.

I do think I'm the best lightweight in the world.

Crossroads fights are an important part of boxing. The winner goes on to bigger and better things, while the loser squanders a significant career opportunity.

I'm not going to fight unless it's for a belt. Nothing else matters but the belt.

I want to be the undisputed champion of the world.

If I wanted to fight for the title, I would fight at around 240.

The heavyweight championship of the world was the most coveted title in sports. Everyone knew who the heavyweight champion was. And not only when it was Muhammad Ali or Rocky Marciano: they knew when it was Ingemar Johansson.

As long as it was George Groves in the opposite corner with his world title, the date was irrelevant to me. I was prepared to wait as long as it took to get that fight for the world title.

There is no bigger fight than Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder.

When I fought Joseph Parker it was for the WBO world title and they robbed my fight.

If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.

The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me.

I had two managers who couldn't stand each other. I had a promoter, Don King, who couldn't get any fights, and I was fighting once a year. I knocked out Norton and then didn't fight for 13 months. Then I fight the heavyweight champion of the world.