David Haye Quotes

The Isaac Chilemba fight was draining.

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

I just look for another spectacular fight, another spectacular one-sided performance.

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

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

In '82, I was a little too young, I was a little inexperienced, and I was more concerned with going the distance in the fight than going out and taking Holmes out.

This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.

You could be the best in the world, but it doesn't matter. It's four-ounce gloves. I've been dropped in practice with a knee to the body. I take a good knee to the body and break my ribs in the fight, I lost. I mean, it's a fight.

All you can do is the same as any other fight: whoever they put in front of you, you go in there and try to get the W.

I'm going to take Barrera out in devastating style with unbelievably hard shots. He's tailor-made for me, and I will fit him with a suit to wear on the canvas.

I'm confident that I can go in and fight for 12 rounds and win a decision.

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.

My great fight was against Liddell. I lost via decision but it was one of the fights that I most enjoyed to be part of. He was tough, had heavy hands, I was able to handle him and knock him down in the second round, we gave an amazing show.

I consider myself a prize fighter going into a very, very tough ring called daytime TV, and I take it very seriously.

I will look for the knockout because that's the way I fight.

I'll go for the knockout, and if we have to go 12 rounds, then I'll trust the judges to do their best work, and I will get the victory if I deserve it.

No one ever wants fight of the night. Every fight I've gone in, I want knockout of the night. I want to be in and out quick. Sometimes, these guys just have a lot of grit - they're highly trained, and I just can't get them out of there, so I get fight of the night.

Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.

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.

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

There's many ups and downs in the fight game.

In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.

I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out.