Muhammad Ali Quotes

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.

Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

Speed is something that, in the heavyweight division, we don't have a lot of.

I think I'm one of the fastest and strongest lightweights out there.

When we started training with WWE, coaches were impressed and asked if we had had boxing training. I said no, it was all soccer. As a defender, I had to learn to stay on my feet, track backwards, and I feel all the movement I do in the ring was helped by my soccer background.

Forget about jiu-jitsu and wrestling - I'm a boxing guy.

My thing is that if you love the sport, appreciate the sport as a whole. If you love the sport, you love the slick boxer; you love the guy who can box and punch. You love the brawler.

I have a lot of boxing skills.

I found boxing so, so easy with incredible power, speed, and accuracy.

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

My father taught me boxing and showed me what this beautiful sport means.

For me speed and power is the most important thing on the footy field as well as agility which I work on everyday.

There's no other heavyweight in the division like me, especially when it comes into the athletic department. I'm the most athletic heavyweight in the division.

I think footwork is one of the most important things to becoming a great fighter. That's where everything starts.

When it's all said and done, Linares is an exceptional fighter.

I'm developing more as a welterweight and becoming a better fighter.

I love boxing because it's similar to dancing, you have to memorize certain moves... and it's not just challenging for the body but you have to use your brain as well.

If I didn't have a great right hook, the bigger, heavier fighters would grind me down and smother me.

I have always been comfortable in possession, but it is tracking and tackling that I have been working on.

DC is tough and he's such a good athlete. I think he's better at heavyweight than he is at light heavyweight. I think he's stronger, he can eat and he doesn't have to stress about the weight.

I rarely think that when a guy loses a fight, it's a weight issue. You can either fight, or you can't.

Bundu is a very good fighter. He's experienced and technically sound, but he can be awkward.

Fight prep, boxing, cardio, stretching. It's almost like dancing, you have to learn to dance and keep practicing it.

I've been in the ring with big-muscled heavyweights and cruiserweights, who couldn't punch the skin off a rice pudding, and then I've taken on light welterweights and light middleweights, and they hit hard, and you can see they're not trying.