Jimi Manuwa Quotes

Yeah, I miss that feeling of knocking somebody clean out. There's nothing like it when you go into a fight and you just take 'em up out of there with just one punch. It's just the best feeling in the world.

Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.

Errol Spence is a fighter. He wants to hurt you.

Of course I would want the knockout, but with me, I just look for, you know, a spectacular performance. It's like, walk them down, or go for the knockout. You know, hopefully I get the knockout.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

Just knock hell out of it with your right hand.

I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.

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

I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I'm very good at it.

The best feeling is to win by knockout.

If I don't knock out Lennox Lewis, I am going to beat the hell out of him.

I've seen so many fighters getting knocked out.

In boxing, some fighters have good chins. You just have to be persistent and continue following the plan and trying to catch them nicely and, obviously, hope to be knocking him out.

I really believe in my hands and my power to knock people out, and I will try to keep looking for that, for knockouts.

When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.

That takes it out of you, throwing too many punches.