Errol Spence Jr. Quotes

I had an exciting style, I was very aggressive, a body puncher, and I attacked all the time.

It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.

Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.

I tell the guys all the time, 'if you have a good puncher, all the way in or all the way out.' Don't stay there and box.

Dos Santos just has really good movement. He's really quick with his hands. He throws good combinations, and he has a lot of power. Combining all of that, it makes it really tough for somebody to fight with him.

It is tougher to control range on a guy who is as tall, lengthy, and busy as Amir Khan, who has a very good jab.

I'm an overall sound fighter, a boxer-puncher.

Range control is a big part of Floyd Mayweather's arsenal.

My best weapon is probably my speed. I am faster than most middleweights, and I know how to use it.

Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.

I'll take what I can get when I go high with a hook, but the side of the head makes a big target, especially if his hands are down.

Froch is like a train who just comes forward but Groves will move about, fake and feign and his good footwork is a big part of his game.

People say of every opponent, 'When are you going to knock him out?' But I'm not like Mike Tyson, who came flying out of his corner. I'm much more composed. A guy is supposed to be durable, but then I start finding my range, and, well, it comes together. Boom.

He sells, he knows how to talk, he's smart, he's no fool. McGregor doesn't fight, he just reacts, he's never first to throw a punch. He goes in there to tease, not to fight. He's like Muhammad Ali.

Charles Hatley is a good fighter. He comes with pressure and he likes fighting. He's got a good style and he can bob and weave and be slick.

I don't want to be chasing a big, awkward southpaw around the ring. I want a fight that people will enjoy.

The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

When I step into the ring with someone, this has got to be their vacation spot, but my home turf. So I go the opposite side seven rounds doing the same thing. Skipping, skipping, skipping. Then I go seven rounds going both ways. Skip to the left, skip to the right.

Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.