Ben Askren Quotes

Honey, I just forgot to duck

I'm pretty good on my feet. I'm pretty decent at bobbing and weaving, but there's only so long you can bob and weave when you don't have a good base.

You watch Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather fight, Floyd can just throw a few punches, or he can do a lot of defense; he can slip a few punches, let Conor get a few shots in. You can't really do that in wrestling without getting scored on or putting yourself at risk.

I like to be moved around a lot because the defense can never know or expect me to be in just one place. They can't really key on me. I can be freed up.

It's just always been a knack for me to play defense.

Canelo is a counterpuncher, a boxer, and that's what I am.

Viktor Postol is a great champion and he was dodged for a reason, but I ain't the type to duck and dodge anyone.

When you fight a shorter fighter, you attack with uppercuts.

We always try the knockout, but it's hard to get it if the opponent always runs away.

Lyoto makes it very difficult to knock him out, he escapes well and moves very well.

I've got a really canny knack for avoiding big punches or clean punches.

You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

Artemis ducked. Cudgeon didn't. Guess what? Artemis was smarter.

Seeing me before him, / The adversary attacks, / But by that time / I am already standing / Safely behind him.

On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!'

I knock people out. As soon as I land my shots on him, you will see the difference between class and hype. He's been built up and he believes the hype, but I will beat reality into him.

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

Boxing changed my life. It's like a drug; you can't believe how great it is! Let me tell you something, you hit somebody on the chin, the guy goes down, the crowd roars...Wow! You really feel something!

Rowww!” Bast wailed. The wrecking ball rolled straight over her, but she didn’t appear hurt. She leaped off and pounced aain. Her knives sliced through the metal like wet clay. Within seconds, the wrecking ball was reduced to a mound of scraps. Bast sheathed her blades. “Safe now.” “You saved us from a metal ball,” Sadie said. “You never know,” Bast said. “It could’ve been hostile.

Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing. That's what's great about the choreography that goes on here. It's a delicate ballet with a fist in the face.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy.

Yes, well," said his da with a hint of a grow that told him just how worried Bran had been about him, "that'll teach you to dodge a bit quicker next time." "Sorry," he apologized meekly as he sat in the passenger seat. "Good," said Bran, shutting the door gently. "Don't let it happen again." -Bran and Charles

Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.