Phil Gingrey Quotes

A boxing ring looks different from the inside, particularly when it's shared with another man who is intent upon rendering you unconscious. There's no place to hide. Once a fighter climbs the stairs, he's roped in, unable to leave until his night's work is done.

My job is to hit somebody until the referee pulls me off.

Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

I just fight whoever is weighing in on the time it's to weigh in.

In boxing, everybody has their favorites.

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

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

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.

I'd love to fight any of the titleholders, any time, any place.

Of course, we would love to fight Floyd.

I will beat Aldo. I wanna fight him.

Luis Sanchez will definitely bring a challenge, and I know he will try to bring the fight to me.

Listen, I'm the champ, and I'm not going to pick and choose who I fight.

My goal is to get all these fighters that everybody say I'm running from inside the ring with me.

I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.

This is boxing, everybody fights everybody.

I am going to smash B.J. Flores to bits and be the first man stop him.

I wrestled almost everybody.

Every time I touched Ronda, connected a punch, I wanted more and more. That's why the fight was so fast. Every time I connected, I felt that she couldn't take it, so I threw more and only stopped when it was over. But it was good.

I'm gonna knock people out.

I do not want to be a fighter that people should beat to get a title fight.