Carl Froch Quotes

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

I'm not fighting just to fight. I'm fighting to be the world champ.

When I'm in the ring and we're getting it on and people are screaming my name, it'll push me more.

I've fought a lot of prospects.

I can be the best light-middleweight in the world.

I am like every single fighter - going into the ring, I have in my mind, 'Finish the bout before all the rounds are over, and to get the victory before that.'

Listen, I'm the champ, and I'm not going to pick and choose who I fight.

My goal is to get all these fighters that everybody say I'm running from inside the ring with me.

Every fight has been hard. Every world title I've won has been hard fought, and every European title I've won has been hard fought as well.

My job is to work my best boxing in the ring.

I consider myself a prize fighter going into a very, very tough ring called daytime TV, and I take it very seriously.

I love to fight, and I'm looking forward to being back in the ring, getting the victory, and moving on to challenge for the World Heavyweight title.

Fight night is when you see all our excitement and all our hard work pouring out.

I do not want to be a fighter that people should beat to get a title fight.

I've fought the best in the world.

I have fights where I thought I'm going to destroy the guy and then I had a very tough fight, I had fights where the guy's a big name and I win in the first minute.

Who else is willing to fight Woodley at six weeks' notice? Nobody. That's why it's come to me. But I will dethrone the champion and start a new era. I'll be an active champion, so they can all get in line.

Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

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.

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.

All the champions - you go and ask Mike Tyson or Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis and myself included, and I'm sorry for putting myself in line with all the other great names - but the champion's attitude is it doesn't matter who is in front of me, I am going to conquer this person and win the fight and knock the person out.

In the 46-48 kg. category, I know every boxer, and I defeat them whenever I fight them.

There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.