Joe Calzaghe Quotes

As everyone in boxing knows, styles makes fights.

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.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

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

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 have to take my time, use my punches, and use the ring.

I do best when guys come at me. Stylistically, the Ricky Hatton fight is the best fight for me.

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.

Mayweather waits for you to make a mistake. He plays a similar game to me.

When I come in throwing shots from different angles and with both hands, I've been knocking people clean out.

One thing for sure is that I am not going to attempt to knock Barrera out. My boxing ability and my speed are the attributes that will get me the win.

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.

Manny Pacquiao always makes a fake move that I know too well. He fakes a charge forward and then looks like he is going to follow with a one-two. That's a common fake he has.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

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

I learned a lot from the Holmes fight. I learned about styles and the pressure. I'm more prepared now.

I think Marriaga is a very good opponent for me. It's very hard when you have to find the keys to his defense. If people don't understand boxing, they don't know what he's capable to do. I understand it all.

GGG is a great fighter, but he hasn't got the ability that Kell has - Brook is the far superior boxer.

I tell the guys all the time, 'if you have a good puncher, all the way in or all the way out.' Don't stay there and box.

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.

There was a time in Amir Khan's career when you had to fight him; you couldn't really box him. You wouldn't see Amir take beatings: if he lost, he would just get caught and stopped. It was hard to catch him clean and keep up with him in the ring because he was such a dynamic fighter.

Dos Santos just has really good movement. He's really quick with his hands. He throws good combinations, and he has a lot of power. Combining all of that, it makes it really tough for somebody to fight with him.

Style-wise, I'm not ideal to fight, but I'm not taking anything away from 'Canelo' Alvarez, he's a special fighter and he's one of the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world for a reason.

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