Rocky Fielding Quotes

Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave.

I got the who's who in the boxing world; I've been training with the Lomachenkos, the Terrence Crawfords.

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

I am excited by and impressed with Anthony Joshua, but Anthony has a long way to go. At first, I thought Anthony was similar to a Frank Bruno figure, but after a few fights, I realised he's nothing like Frank Bruno. He's very athletic.

I don't want my career to peter out fighting meaningless fights; I want to go against the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world.

I won't watch that Amir fight from now until I fight Alvarez. I'm not a blown up 147 or a Miguel Cotto. I'm a big 154 lb., and I'm coming of age and coming to win.

Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and all those guys. Because they were older than me and I was doing my thing.

I got messed up between my fight with Ken Norton and my fight with Larry Holmes; I got messed up with alcohol. I needed at least a year more experience, with three or four more fights before I fought Holmes. But I couldn't get any fights. Don King had all the contenders, and unless I signed myself over to him, I couldn't get a fight.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

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.

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.

I think 15 to 18 title defenses is something that would be in the record books forever.

I remember when I used to go to York Hall and just watch, and I'd be like 'how are these people doing it.' Even though I was an amateur boxer at the time, I was like 'how are these guys fighting professionally in this arena?'

My fifth pro fight, I got my first title fight.

I was fighting at 125 pounds when I was 15 years old... then became a champion at 126 pounds at 25 years old.

I've been boxing since I was eight, and that's a long time to take punches day after day.

When I was 17 or 18, I realised I could do something with boxing.

Boxing has been good to me and I believe I have been good for boxing.

Middleweight is my category.

I'm done fighting at welterweight. Unless they open up a 175-pound division, I'm moving up to middleweight.

I know what I'm worth, and I know boxing.

I ain't a 16-fight novice who has only fought at British title level.

Kids always used to come up and ask me if I ever fought Mike Tyson, and I used to tell them that we couldn't because we were in different weight classes.

I definitely was a big puncher early on in my career, and I used to load up with my left hand. Then, towards the end of my career, I had hand problems and needed injections in my hands for the pain.