Errol Spence Jr. Quotes

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.

I will look for the knockout because that's the way I fight.

You test yourself. That's what real fighters do.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I never let myself get desperate.

I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

I think I have a good head on my shoulders.

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. That's what takes people out of the fight half the time.

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

I've got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I'll make it extremely hard.