Liam Smith Quotes

You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

People ask me about Orlando Salido. My answer is that I fight for Top Rank and will take on who they schedule for me. But I would like to welcome Salido to Lomachenko University in the ring some day.

And that's what I want to do, fight the best guys, the toughest guys to prove I am the best.

Alvarez is the biggest name in boxing. I'm looking forward to pitting my wits against one of the best in the sport.

An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976. Stevenson was at his peak. The world had never seen a heavyweight with the tools Stevenson brought into the ring.

If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.

In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.

We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

If I get the fight against Mayweather, I have no doubt I can go and take it.

You decide whether you want to box on, or not. And for me of course, I wasn't going to be leaving the business until becoming a world champion, and defending it numerous times.

I can outbox Anthony Joshua.

I will be a complete man, a complete athlete, with a fight with Roy Jones Jr.

There's a lot of good fighters at 168 with or without Canelo, so I want to test myself against them.

I will beat Carl Froch every night of the week and it doesn't matter if it is the best Carl Froch or the worst Carl Froch.

Fighters like Bernard Hopkins can go on because their style is not based on reflexes and timing.

I would love to fight Ricky Hatton.

I'm a boxer. I'm a boxer. If you're interested, just watch my boxing, not my life.

I have a dream fight - boxing fight - and I am for sure gonna fight a boxing fight.

The only person I'd be interested in boxing would have to be one of the best of the best. It would have to be, like, Andre Ward.

If I would've fought Andre Ward in my prime, I would've beat him.

I love boxing. I like to see the strategizing. Watching the warriors go to work. I like that struggle, going out there and fighting.

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.