Joseph Parker Quotes

My coach used to tell me I've got pretty heavy hands, so I try to use them at the start of the fight because it's a good time to use my power because I'm 100% in the moment.

My first boxing experience came at around 14. There was always confrontation in the area I grew up in. My mentality, I'll be honest, was if someone tries it with me, I want to be able to knock them out.

There's no such thing as a lucky punch. You throw to hurt someone and if you hurt someone, job done.

I've always been told that if you spar with another man, you try and emulate what a real fight is going to be like. So you go hard. It's how I've always been.

I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.

If I get a guy that can take my shots and withstand my arsenal for the first round or two, I think you're going to see the best of me coming forward.

One of the things I always tell people is that when it comes to fighting and fight week, then I'm there for one purpose, and that's to fight and get the hell out of dodge.

Boxing is dangerous. Anything can happen, so you need supreme confidence. That's why I represent myself like nobody can beat me, because I need to truly believe it.

A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.

It is not that hard to go out there and put on the performance of your life and beat any guy in the lightweight division on any given night.

I really believe in my hands and my power to knock people out, and I will try to keep looking for that, for knockouts.

Lesnar is a bully. I'd hurt him and show him that he couldn't hurt me. That doesn't sound too technical, but in a fight with Brock Lesnar, you need to go after him.

There are a lot of fighters, when I fight them, they stay hit forever and never fight again.

Everyone has 4 ounce gloves on, and they're big boys, and they can throw hard.

I always had a fetish for fighting big peoples. My dad put me in the ring with much bigger guys. In my first fight, I gave the guy a 14-pound advantage.

I don't have any ill will towards any of my opponents. I understand we are the highest calibre of athlete in this sport, and we will both go and give it our all. But I don't want anyone to misinterpret what I am saying: when we step into that octagon and we touch gloves, I am going to break his face.

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.

A hand fought best when it made a fist.

I'm not saying I'd walk through everybody. There's some great fights for me, though, and I'd put on a hell of a show with a lot of the fighters in the top 10. My pressure is second to none, and a lot of them don't have any way to prepare for what I'm going to be bring.

Fighters don't just fight. Not the good ones who have long, long success. The guys who make championship runs. The guys who fight for world titles. They get fizzled out, chewed up and spit out like a revolving door and then the next guy or the next female comes in to take their spot.

Boxing's not in my blood... it just grew on me.

I live a fight life, I can do what I want to win a fight.

I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.

As far as losing fights, that's part of the sport.