Big Show Quotes

I say the sweet science is to understand not only how to fight coming forward, how to be a big puncher, but also understand, if you run into a guy who can take your punch for the first time, how to react.

There's always great things that champions do. It can be inside fighting, this person uses his range well, this person has a great right hand - anytime you fight a champion, there's multiple things that they do well, and you have to try to take those strengths away.

Many people don't understand ring control. They think they do until they're against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.

I think Marriaga is a very good opponent for me. It's very hard when you have to find the keys to his defense. If people don't understand boxing, they don't know what he's capable to do. I understand it all.

When you fight a shorter fighter, you attack with uppercuts.

Mayweather waits for you to make a mistake. He plays a similar game to me.

The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

You have got to not get hit. You could be the best puncher in the world, but if you're going to keep constantly taking punches you're going to lose your heart. Once you learn how to miss the punches and then you start to punch them, you become an all-around fighter.

Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It's about poise and grace under extreme pressure.

I think a fighter should be ready and able to adapt to anything that is in front of him in the ring.

Boxing is the sweet science. You hit and not get hit. There's no reward for you to hit me more than I hit you other than on the scorecards.

I have to take my time, use my punches, and use the ring.

I tell the guys all the time, 'if you have a good puncher, all the way in or all the way out.' Don't stay there and box.

When I'm fighting, I'm trying to find a reaction. I try to make the guy move; I try to make him do things that I want him to do. If he likes moving a certain way, I try to set something up so I catch him if he moves that way.

There was a time in Amir Khan's career when you had to fight him; you couldn't really box him. You wouldn't see Amir take beatings: if he lost, he would just get caught and stopped. It was hard to catch him clean and keep up with him in the ring because he was such a dynamic fighter.

Dos Santos just has really good movement. He's really quick with his hands. He throws good combinations, and he has a lot of power. Combining all of that, it makes it really tough for somebody to fight with him.

I've trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I won't get there to fight my opponent's game.

Froch is like a train who just comes forward but Groves will move about, fake and feign and his good footwork is a big part of his game.

I'm a distance fighter - if you've seen me fight, I like ducking in and out.

Boxing is very one dimensional. You can hit to the head, you can hit to the body. As soon as two guys get into a clinch, you're separated.

I am aware of what my opponent Avila brings and the experience he has. He's tough, throws hard shots and is a good counterpuncher.

I'm a professional fighter. My game plan is to fight standing up and to fight on the ground.