Rocky Fielding Quotes

When you fight a shorter fighter, you attack with uppercuts.

I'm an overall sound fighter, a boxer-puncher.

Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.

I'd say I just fell in love with trying to knock people out really quick instead of letting the fight develop.

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.

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.

In boxing, some fighters have good chins. You just have to be persistent and continue following the plan and trying to catch them nicely and, obviously, hope to be knocking him out.

I'm an orthodox fighter, relaxed, fast, and powerful. And I've got good footwork.

My best weapon is probably my speed. I am faster than most middleweights, and I know how to use it.

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.

I hit hard, and I hit fast - much faster than Bisping, much harder than Bisping, and I have much better defence than Bisping.

The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

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.

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

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.

You have got to not get hit. You could be the best puncher in the world, but if you're going to keep constantly taking punches you're going to lose your heart. Once you learn how to miss the punches and then you start to punch them, you become an all-around fighter.

I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with me.

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 can box. I can hit hard. I've got different angles.

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.