Rashad Evans Quotes

We got four-ounce gloves here. It's not hard to knock someone out.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

I've seen so many fighters getting knocked out.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

The most excited you'll ever see me is after knocking a guy out.

People want to see knockouts.

Knocking someone out cold means you just caught them, that's all.

I don't look at my opponent's eyes in the ring. I watch his gloves so that I can block or avoid his punches.

I always say if you can't knock someone out with four ounce gloves on there is something wrong with you.

Everyone has 4 ounce gloves on, and they're big boys, and they can throw hard.

This is called prizefighting for a reason.

You don't want the fight to stop on a cut or something like that. You want to finish the fight. You always have the idea that you have the chance to stay in a fight, because one blow can end it all.

That's the reality of boxing - it can be over in a flash.

Hurd puts on entertaining fights, I put on entertaining fights. Let's bang it out, let's rumble.

Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

Really, if you get in the ring and box with someone for real, I don't think it is a sport. As far as professional fighters, you are literally putting your life on the line.

Boxing is always serious.

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I'm going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that's what will happen.