Stanley Crouch Quotes

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.

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.

When I get in there, I try to really make sure there's no quit in me and that whoever I fight is going to have a long night.

I train like an animal in the ring. There's nobody that can beat me because I train hard for everybody.

I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.

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.

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.

In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.

If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.

I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, 'I'm back.' I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know.

People don't understand the analogy of football and acting, but there's a great deal of it that's the same. You get dressed in the room, and you think you've got it all prepared, and later on in the game you wish you had put on more pads 'cause they're just kicking the hell out of you. God almighty, I've been beat up by the best.

As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'

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

It's always special to fight.

I think each fight is a challenge for me.

Boxing is kind of like football in that you test each other's desire to be there.

It's the fight game. I'm ready for everything.

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

Colby Covington is a nightmare match-up for me, but I'm ready to walk through the fire.

I've been battle-tested inside the ring and outside the ring.

When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war.

That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of

It's only boxing, don't worry about it. Let's get it on!

Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.