Callum Smith Quotes

My next fight is always the most important fight, so regardless if I'm fighting for the title or not, I always have to go in there and give everything that I've got.

I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.

You don't have to like me as a person - I understand that I can get on people's nerves with the antics I do in the ring. This is not a popularity contest. I'm trying to do whatever I can to win the fight.

I have the experience to beat Hatton. I've been on the big stage.

My coaches know when it's a big fight, I'm at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

Fear is there. Anything can happen at an Olympics. I want to use the experience I gained from Athens and Beijing - the fear, too - and build a me that can't lose. I will do everything to make sure I win a third gold medal in London. That target drives me. I'm bulking up and have more power now. I'll be fighting fit to take the gold back home.

I have no doubt in my abilities that I can beat any of the top ten guys. Once I'm focused I know I can beat them.

When you train outside of camp, it's fun, I'm playing around, I'm working hard but I'm having fun. When I get into that camp it's 10 weeks of tunnel vision on that opponent, you're trying to work on your strengths and weaknesses, really trying to get better in different areas before the fight.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally too inexperienced to cope comfortably in the pressure cooker of an Olympic year.

There are at least three kinds of advantages that the pitcher and batter contest. There's the physical advantage, the strategic advantage, and also the psychological advantage. I didn't want two out of three. I wanted them all.

We know the window of boxing don't last long. We want to try to get everything we can in this window and beat everyone we can.

You can't go into a game lax and acting like somebody isn't trying to beat you.

I think preparing every week like it's the most important game in the world makes things a little easier once you get in situations where a lot more people are watching and it might be a lot more important for people outside of the building.

You have 20 fights, you should know what it takes to get yourself ready. If you don't feel like you're ready, you let your coach know 'hey we need to work on a little bit more of this.'

I gotta be able to beat good guys at any moment. I think that's what I'm taking.

The day I step in the cage with Cyborg, I will be 100% prepared.

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

When I prepare for a fight, I never expect it to be easy. I believe that that would create a chance for me to not give my best in the Octagon.

The first thing I do when I book a fight is I go to the Internet and I print out a picture of the guy and put it on my refrigerator.