Andre Ward Quotes

With my position, you have to kind of be three steps ahead of your opponent.

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

When you have beaten guys a few times, you don't want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don't expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.

Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.

These guys are playing checkers. I'm out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it's too late.

I was about 11 or 12 when I started, playing against bigger players. I would use my speed to get out of trouble.

Joachim Alcine does certain things in the ring that I've seen and taken note of. There are some things I believe I can take advantage of.

I thought I fought a really good Orlando Salido. I never let him get into his fight. I knew what I needed to do against him and I think that was the difference. I was able to control the fight.

Your rivals study the way you play and find a tactic to counteract your strengths.

Stylistically, Tommy Hearns is much better than Marvin Hagler - his technique and punching were better - but he just couldn't do it. He couldn't beat Marvin Hagler, and it's because styles make fights.

I love when people try to be physical with me. They think that's the way to try to guard me and to get physical with me. I use that to my advantage.

A guy like Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather is used to fighting 12-rounders. Put them into the ring for three rounds against a top amateur boxer at a much faster pace, and they'll lose a fight, and how bad is that going to make them look?

I don't see where Tyson Fury has boxed anybody of Wladimir's [ Klitschko] calibre to be able to get in the ring with Wladimir and do well.

You can’t blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity

Observe, orient, decide, act. It's fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other person dies. In Silicon Valley, the OODA loop of your decision-making is effectively what differentiates your ability to succeed.

We want to create a problem for the defense, a moment of indecision as they figure out how they want to play against whatever formation we may show. We get a slight edge this way. Also, we create the opportunity for a defense to make more mistakes.

There's different ways to win in this league. It's not always going to be pretty.

I like finishing the games by dominating the opposition.

We both do a lot of similar things with speed and boxing ability, but I think I've got some tricks up my sleeve for Zab. Zab will probably tell you he's got some tricks up his sleeve for me.

I have to be smarter than my opponents. I have to figure out their styles in the ring. I have to be three or four steps ahead of them. So my mind has to be sharp.

I think we can keep people off-balance and ultimately we have to go score points, score one more point than the other team.

There's always going to be a way for me to go around a defense or play mind games and find a way to win.

I don't have to rush the fight. I have five rounds to win.

Every boxer needs to be able to punch, but none more than me, and that's because I'm not that skilful, and I'm one of the smallest heavyweights you'll ever see.

I've always been accused of being too clever for my own good.