Joe Calzaghe Quotes

I proposed abolishing boxing because it was bad for the brain, but boxers were generally so decent that I loved being around the gyms.

Boxers put themselves on the line, they put their lives at risk, so it's up to the boxers to make sure they are healthy and sharp because we are giving the public what they want to see.

I have seen the consequences of what can happen in boxing.

The integration of a headgear in professional boxing would do so much to make it safer for young men. They could go into the sport, make a lot of money and then come out and be good grandfathers.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.

Boxing is a dangerous, cruel sport. I love the sport, but I don't want to see my kids in the ring, potentially being hurt, with me not being able to do nothing to help them.

I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions and head injury, it is becoming more evident that we need to protect our brains as much as possible. There hasn't been enough research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.

In boxing, if a fighter doesn't leave the sport on time, something bad is likely to happen.

I've boxed on with cuts, broken jaws, everything.

I don't ever want to be a punch drunk.

There have been many boxing comebacks over the years, and sadly many of them do not have a happy ending.

I was a huge boxing fan, but it's a sport where the guys punch each other in the head. I thought maybe I shouldn't be a fan of that anymore. Maybe I shouldn't allow myself to cheer a sport where the head injuries are a big part of it.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once disappear when the contestants cover their hands with large, soft-leather gloves.

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

It's not just professional athletes and soldiers who are at risk from traumatic brain injury. More than 1.7 million people a year sustain a traumatic brain injury, and about 50,000 of them die each year, according the Centers for Disease Control. There are both emotional and financial costs from these injuries.

A cleaved head no longer plots.

I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.

If you lose a race or game in hockey, you lose a game. That's it. If you lose a fight you might lose part of your brain because of the damage.

I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.