Errol Spence Jr. Quotes

If you think you're in shape, try boxing. You'll discover that you are not. It's the most physically challenging thing I've ever attempted, but I love it and I want to keep up some of the training.

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.

I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.

I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.

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.

Boxing is a part of my life but it's only a small part.

You don't have to get ready if you stay ready, alright? I'm always in the gym, always training, all the time.

I feel like if I get my legs under me, strengthen my legs up a lot more I'll be able to get out there and face the challenges of a 3.

I'm healthy - for a gymnast.

I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport.

I can run a good few miles. I box a little.

I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.

Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.

I've been doing Pilates since 1974, I lift weights, I power walk every day and I run backwards. That's sometimes a little hard when you're not on your home turf, because you've got to find a place where there are no bumps in the way - or people.

When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.

A guy like Bruce Lee, I've always been a fan. How he used to be able to move and be so quick. You look at some of the exercises that he did, and it was all majority free weight, like standing on your hands. That works every muscle. Everything is firing.

I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.

Sexy is attitude, but fitness for me is my dance. I dance two hours nearly every day. You break into good sweat, and it doesn't even feel like exercise. Apart from that, I enjoy Pilates.

I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked.

I do yoga; I'm pretty dedicated.