Becca Fitzpatrick Quotes

I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.

I'm always having fun in training and in boxing. I think it's because boxing is my passion.

Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

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.

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

My mother used to box, and I followed her footsteps into training. She loves fighting.

I just love boxing. Train to get there and to just fight somebody.

I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.

I also watched boxing all the time and Tuesday Night Fights on USA and just kept hitting my heavy back in the garage.

There's nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.

I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time - I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked.

I boxed 15 years in a club.

Training's training; boxing's boxing. Everyone does the same kind of stuff: they spar, they train, they do whatever they do to prepare for fights.

No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.

I box every day. I have a gym built wherever I go, so I still got my gym. Every day, I try to get in there and work out the mitts.

Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.

The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.

When I was competing in Muay Thai I used to fight every month.

Chad Mendes, I'm hunting with all the time.

If Mayweather wants to come over and fight in the UFC, then do it. It's hardcore here, though. I don't think it'll be a stroll in the park. Granted, he's the best boxer ever seen, just about.

I've been working a lot on my jab.

I will be a complete man, a complete athlete, with a fight with Roy Jones Jr.

His boxing style is one that I would like to test myself against. I've always been a fan of his, and I've always wanted to test myself against Roy Jones.

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

I've been in the gym, I've been training and I've been getting the Ws. I think that played a factor in me staying out of trouble outside the ring, staying focused on what's in front of me, and that's my boxing career.