Liam Smith 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.

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

Charles Hatley is a good fighter. He comes with pressure and he likes fighting. He's got a good style and he can bob and weave and be slick.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

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

I tell the guys all the time, 'if you have a good puncher, all the way in or all the way out.' Don't stay there and box.

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

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.

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.

People say of every opponent, 'When are you going to knock him out?' But I'm not like Mike Tyson, who came flying out of his corner. I'm much more composed. A guy is supposed to be durable, but then I start finding my range, and, well, it comes together. Boom.

One thing for sure is that I am not going to attempt to knock Barrera out. My boxing ability and my speed are the attributes that will get me the win.

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.

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.

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 was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.

Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.

I'd say I just fell in love with trying to knock people out really quick instead of letting the fight develop.

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

Boxing is all about timing. And if you take long periods of inactivity, you will be made to pay the price.

I've always had heart to get in there and fight. I was taught everything I knew. I was taught how to jab, why to do this, and why not to do that. I was taught that.

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

I love fighting big guys because I'm fast. I'm not a big, light heavyweight. I can move. I can get inside on them. I'm inside, I'm wrestling with them, and they're just wrestling, but all the time, I'm chopping; I'm slapping.