Billy Joe Saunders Quotes

Long Island has a great boxing tradition.

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.

I don't really watch much boxing.

I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

When I was younger, growing up in Pittsburgh, they had a 'Golden Gloves' program through the Boys and Girls Club. In Pittsburgh, New York, Philly, Washington, those areas, I would go and spar at competitions.

Every year, you hope that boxing can provide some of the best fights possible. I think 2018 was one of the better years for boxing. A lot of good matchups were made, and a lot of tickets were sold.

I feel great about the boxing in South Florida.

Brownsville breeds the best fighters in the world. What other neighborhood has produced so many champions?

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

I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum.

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like 'Raging Bull', 'Rocky', 'The Set Up', 'Fat City and Hard Times'. I just loved those films.

I liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.

After doing boxing a little bit, I knew that I wanted to achieve what the other boxers were achieving: the championship and whatever comes with the championships.

I got the who's who in the boxing world; I've been training with the Lomachenkos, the Terrence Crawfords.

I've competitively boxed. It's definitely Plan B for me, but I know how to box.

When I was 17 or 18, I realised I could do something with boxing.

I have been very busy having so many fights since I turned pro. To have 13 in little more than two years is a lot by modern standards.

Women's boxing has received a major boost from the success of 'Million Dollar Baby.'

I know what I'm worth, and I know boxing.

Unlike most sports playing fields, a boxing ring is a temporary structure.

I have a great passion for boxing. I have family members who are boxers.

We're prizefighters. That's what we become. Boxing has one of the biggest purses in sport. And in the sporting field, we probably make the most money.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan, would sit through the night watching boxing matches and would hit the bag at every opportunity I would get.