James Carville Quotes

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

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

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

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

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.

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

I boxed 15 years in a club.

My brother and I were still in high school playing football, and we were both middleweight, and we couldn't find anyone else to fight in our weight class, so we'd fight each other. I was a stand-up fighter, and Ike was a weaving type of fighter, and we fought that way out there at Cy Young's farm, and we put on quite a show.

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

I always said as an amateur that I'd want to one day fight and beat Kindelan because he was the best out there.

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

It's always been my goal to fight the best fighters out there, and I look at Amir Khan as one of the top fighters in my division.

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 had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.

It's a big move from the 'Tough Man' circuit to professional boxing. When I turned pro, I had to play catch-up and was fighting almost twice a month until I had more than 20 fights under my belt.

When I was younger, I actually stepped foot in a ring for the first time at 8 years old because of my dad.

For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think boxing is very dramatic.

I don't see where Tyson Fury has boxed anybody of Wladimir's [ Klitschko] calibre to be able to get in the ring with Wladimir and do well.

If I would've fought Andre Ward in my prime, I would've beat him.

Boxing's been good to me.

When you start boxing when you're 7 years old, that's your dream, to become world champion, and after that you want to become something bigger than world champion.

I can take over boxing with a win over Pacquiao.

Just my two cents: Even as a Christian, I love boxing because it's the ultimate stand-alone test of a competitor's skill and will. Just two opponents, lightly gloved, and a referee ready to jump in and stop it the moment he believes one opponent can no longer defend himself.

No question Pacquiao is someone I would like to fight. But if it's not in front of me, then I am really not worried about it.