Evander Holyfield Quotes

I've been doing this for so many years that I believe Gamboa can't bring anything to the ring that I haven't seen.

I made the decision to turn pro, and I remember what Ali said to me: 'Get Angelo Dundee. He's the right complexion with the right connection.' He knew boxing. Our relationship was so genuine, so sincere.

My dad is a great judge of fights. He's the only person I know who said that Holyfield would beat Tyson the first time.

Everyone in boxing knows that I am a big guy.

Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and all those guys. Because they were older than me and I was doing my thing.

When I was a kid, I wanted to fight Joe Louis. But I think if I had seen Mike Tyson at that time, I would have said, 'Nah, I don't want to fight him.' He's deadly. He could have been one of the great heavyweight champions. But he goofed.

Counting amateur fights, I have over a thousand bouts.

Kids always used to come up and ask me if I ever fought Mike Tyson, and I used to tell them that we couldn't because we were in different weight classes.

My personal feeling is that Bernard Hopkins has never been an industry boy.

I am one of the hardest-hitting light-middleweights they've had for centuries.

Alvarez is the biggest name in boxing. I'm looking forward to pitting my wits against one of the best in the sport.

Mike Tyson’s a great boxer. The greatest boxer - but boxer. Not the best fighter.

Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

I'm not going to say that I'm the best, we respect our champions. Floyd's been doing this a lot longer than me, he's been a lot of mega fights and I won't dare say that I'm better than Floyd Mayweather.

If I would've fought Andre Ward in my prime, I would've beat him.

I want to go down, like my hero Sugar Ray Robinson, in history.

People are always going to say, 'Who's he beat? He's only beat Cowboy.' So what you're trying to tell me is Cowboy is a nobody? Cowboy will be remembered as one of the greatest fighters of all time. And I beat him in one round.

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.

I know what I'm worth, and I know boxing.

I'm interested in any light-middleweight. If they've got a belt, even if they think they're the hardest in the division, I can beat all of them.

Laila Ali is boxing's real-life million-dollar baby.

You don't compare a guy with 30 or 40 fights with a guy who had 200 fights and fought over 25 years.

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 had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.

So I plan to become one of the few to beat Manny Pacquiao and also become one of the legends.