Warren Zevon Quotes

I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.

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.

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

Long Island has a great boxing tradition.

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

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.

Brownsville breeds the best fighters in the world. What other neighborhood has produced so many champions?

Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.

I didn't watch one tape on Pacquiao. There is no reason to study him. He's not at this level.

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 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 liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.

There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.

I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

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

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

Jack Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion, so I took part of his name. I admired Rocky Marciano, so I took part of his name.

I never have the plan to overtake boxing. I love boxing; I came from boxing.

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 don't really watch much boxing.

I got into boxing because I wanted to fight Tyson.

Trejo is one of the oldest boxing gyms in Cuba; it's outdoor, and every great champion the country has produced has passed through and was forged in the open air.

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.