Katherine Dunn Quotes

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

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 knew boxing before I knew anything else.

I'm not like a full athlete. But I'm definitely a boxer.

I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.

They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really.

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

I took up boxing as a fitness thing. I got obsessed, and I would go every day when I wasn't working. It's just an insane sport when you get into it.

I boxed 15 years in a club.

I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.

I already know what boxers do; I've been in it all my life. I know what they do, and I know how they prepare.

When we first started in Huntington Recreation with John Capobianco, we put four kids in the Golden Gloves finals. We didn't even have a ring. We trained at Stimson Junior High School. They give us the gym three nights a week. We used to box in the gym - no ring, just on the gym floor.

I'm very experienced in four-round fights because of my amateur career, and I've got a high work rate.

The thing that people don't know about me - I actually boxed amateur for a few years.

What people have to realise is that it's not the fights that are really hard; it is the training camps. It's living away from home for 12 weeks. It's sparring with guys who are told they will get £1,000 cash if they can drop me.

As an amateur, we used to fight people from the same gym. You'd spar with each other and then fight each other in championships.

Your grandpa was a boxer in his youth. Sexiest thing I'd ever seen, let me tell you. He wore these short little shorts, and sweat was always dripping down his hairy chest.

That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.

You've got to be fit to box. In football, if you need a breather, your team-mate can take over. There's no one in the ring to help out.

I know what I'm capable of. My dad, my brother, know what I'm capable of. They've seen me in the ring sparring. They know me better than anyone else.

When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.

Me and Bellew, we started off in the same amateur gym together.

As an amateur, I trained in some real hard schools of knocks. In Cuba, they would have judges on three sides of the ring just for sparring sessions. They train under exactly the same conditions as they fight, and it was a great experience.

I first got into boxing when I was quite young. I was about 12 when I won my first boxing match.

It's hard to believe I was just seven when I started boxing but I've put everything of myself into it.