Amir Khan Quotes

I ran into a couple of guys who were boxers. They talked me into working out at their gym. I became obsessed with boxing and the idea of becoming a champion.

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.

I first got into boxing when I was quite young. I was about 12 when I won my first boxing match.

Boxing's been good to me.

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

I boxed 15 years in a club.

No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.

We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

I'm not like a full athlete. But I'm definitely a boxer.

My mother used to box, and I followed her footsteps into training. She loves fighting.

I always thought I would be a boxing champion.

My dad loves boxing, so he used to hold up his hands when we were little kids, and we would punch his hands, and he slowly got us little gloves, and little punching bags that he'd always hold for us.

My dad always wanted me to box because he saw a career in it for me.

My dad was a prize fighter in his youth. My boxing skills are very limited. I did train for most of my youth but couldn't really see the point of getting punched in the head. I'm a lover, not a fighter, but I do enjoy the sport in its purest form. As a child, my heroes were my dad and Muhammad Ali.

I will be a complete man, a complete athlete, with a fight with Roy Jones Jr.

At the end of the day, that's just boxing - it's a different sport altogether. But when I finish fighting for the UFC, there are so many different options I have. Boxing is another option I could take.

I'm really into boxing - I have a personal boxing trainer in New York.

Fighting in a heavier weight class is a big achievement on its own.

I got into boxing because I wanted to fight Tyson.

From a young age, I was told boxing was not a career option. My dad told me there were other ways to make a living in sport without taking punches to the head. But eventually, curiosity got the better of me. I needed to find out what the big deal was.

I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.