Eddie Alvarez Quotes

Everyone has 4 ounce gloves on, and they're big boys, and they can throw hard.

One thing you understand quickly as a fighter is that you're not punching with eight or 10 oz. Gloves. We've got 4 oz. gloves. It only takes one good shot for a fight to be over.

If you want street fight, let's go. If you want boxing, I show you. But people think I am, like, gangster. No. Ring is different world. Very dangerous.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

Ground and pound is my thing, everyone knows that.

Yes, I started off as a bare-knuckle boxer.

Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing.

Really, if you get in the ring and box with someone for real, I don't think it is a sport. As far as professional fighters, you are literally putting your life on the line.

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I'm going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that's what will happen.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

I liked to watch the expression in the fighter's face change when you connected with him. You know when you connect in the right spot. It's like a tunnel vision.

Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.

For sure, I would love to fight in Houston.

I've seen so many fighters getting knocked out.

When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound to me.

MMA has a referee, and you're wearing gloves. I'm in there with another volunteering participant that's out there to win some prize money.

There's no such thing as a lucky punch. You throw to hurt someone and if you hurt someone, job done.

Now I am training with sparring partners who are nice people, sure, but not my friends. These are sparring partners who want to knock me out in sparring. In the Croatian media, they said it was 'life and death' sparring - it was not quite life and death, but it was all-out fighting, very hard.

I'm absolutely obsessed with boxing.

I've knocked out a lot of my opponents.

I've been in a few fights where I keep drilling guys - Carl Froch, those sort of people - and they just keep coming.

I know a little bit of fisticuffs.

I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.