Rocky Fielding Quotes

I want to fight only dangerous guys. Whenever I've done that in my career, I've stepped up and risen to the challenge.

I'm not going to underestimate any fighter.

Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

Just go out there against the best fighters in the world and see where I stand. That's what I want.

Every time I get into the ring, my perspective is that the other guy is standing between me and a victory.

I've got a puncher's chance against anybody.

We all crazy. I respect any man that gets in the ring.

I feel that's what a real champion needs to be doing, dare to take on the best fights possible.

Every time I step into the ring there is a different obstacle but I'm very confident in myself and my ability.

I don't take easy fights.

People can look at my style and my faults, point out all the things I didn't do as well as other fighters but I was never knocked out or stopped.

I'm a fighter. I go in the ring and do one thing.

I respect Demetrious Johnson. I respect him as a human being. He always acts like a professional, he's a nice guy, but that still doesn't mean that I can't say that he's scared to fight me.

I don't fear hostile atmospheres. In fact, that added pressure serves as an incentive for me to give my very best performance on the pitch.

When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.

I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time.