Wladimir Klitschko Quotes

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 boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

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.

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.

It is tougher to control range on a guy who is as tall, lengthy, and busy as Amir Khan, who has a very good jab.

I've got a really canny knack for avoiding big punches or clean punches.

When I step into the ring with someone, this has got to be their vacation spot, but my home turf. So I go the opposite side seven rounds doing the same thing. Skipping, skipping, skipping. Then I go seven rounds going both ways. Skip to the left, skip to the right.

Range control is a big part of Floyd Mayweather's arsenal.

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

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.

He sells, he knows how to talk, he's smart, he's no fool. McGregor doesn't fight, he just reacts, he's never first to throw a punch. He goes in there to tease, not to fight. He's like Muhammad Ali.

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

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

As everyone in boxing knows, styles makes fights.

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

I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.

They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with.

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

I love to box, because I think boxing is an art.

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with me.

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 still can improve a lot on my defense. I just have to keep perfecting my skills and keep progressing. You're going to see a better Errol Spence next time I get in the ring.