Shayna Baszler Quotes

I might be the first fighter who has ever been suspended after retirement.

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 can't tell you how many fights I had where I had to pay to go fight. It was a lot of them.

Technically, my fight with Korobov should have been for the full world title, not the interim.

Middleweight is my category.

I've got no desire to fight Dereck Chisora inside the ring or outside the ring.

Boxing is not that complicated. If two guys want to fight, it's not hard to make a fight. If the fight's not made, it's because one party doesn't want that fight, or maybe both parties don't want it.

My second pro fight, I fought on the Joe Calzaghe and Bernard Hopkins undercard.

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

Boxing is what pays my bills.

A lot of people don't really understand boxing.

Fighting is my livelihood, and jeopardizing my body without a full understanding of conditions doesn't make any sense. No professional fighter will go into a risky match without a contract.

I have been very busy having so many fights since I turned pro. To have 13 in little more than two years is a lot by modern standards.

Boxing is a dangerous, cruel sport. I love the sport, but I don't want to see my kids in the ring, potentially being hurt, with me not being able to do nothing to help them.

Boxing's a funny business and sometimes different fights come along at different times.

I would definitely be interested in a rematch with Callum Smith.

The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business.

It's not uncommon for some Khmer boxers to fight with dangerous frequency, sometimes as often as weekly or bi-weekly, getting up to three hundred or more fights in a career, with the length of a career varying from fighter to fighter, some engaging in bouts far past their prime.

I want to fight guys who are in the title mix.

This is boxing. It's not like a baseball game. The fighters say, 'I need a lot of money or I don't fight, because it's very dangerous.'

My second pro fight was at Madison Square Garden, on the undercard of Naseem Hamed's fight against Kevin Kelley.

Considering fighters are usually going to want to fight the best, they need to be protected from themselves. That's where management should come in.

There's no rules that say you can't have a friend at ringside. The rules say the friend can't interfere.

I didn't even know about amateur boxing, period.

The only person I'd be interested in boxing would have to be one of the best of the best. It would have to be, like, Andre Ward.