Tyron Woodley Quotes

In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.

You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.

I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

It's a punishment game... only two boxers get in the ring. So when we get in the ring and we're not angry, then you're not a real boxer.

I'm not going to say I'm not ready for a fighter like Canelo Alvarez.

I don't want my career to peter out fighting meaningless fights; I want to go against the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world.

I can outbox Anthony Joshua.

I would definitely be interested in a rematch with Callum Smith.

That's boxing - one punch can win a fight.

Alvarez is the biggest name in boxing. I'm looking forward to pitting my wits against one of the best in the sport.

I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.

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.

In boxing, it just seemed to me from the time I was a very small child, we have a peculiarly civilized form in that boxers don't screech and holler. They don't use weapons. When the bell rings, they fight; when the bell rings again, they stop.

We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

A lot of people don't really understand boxing.

I always said as an amateur that I'd want to one day fight and beat Kindelan because he was the best out there.

Middleweight is my category.

And that's what I want to do, fight the best guys, the toughest guys to prove I am the best.

You know if you want to be a boxer the first time you get hit on the nose.

It's not uncommon for some Khmer boxers to fight with dangerous frequency, sometimes as often as weekly or bi-weekly, getting up to three hundred or more fights in a career, with the length of a career varying from fighter to fighter, some engaging in bouts far past their prime.

This is boxing. It's not like a baseball game. The fighters say, 'I need a lot of money or I don't fight, because it's very dangerous.'

Boxing is serious. It's not a game. Just one punch - change life.

I will beat Carl Froch every night of the week and it doesn't matter if it is the best Carl Froch or the worst Carl Froch.