Chris Eubank Jr. Quotes

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.

Lightweights are heavier and bigger than me. I walk around 166 pounds, and other lightweights come down from 198, so they are stronger than me.

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.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

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

I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

I didn't know how to throw a punch - why would I? Who knows how to throw a punch? Now I do it all the time, and it makes me feel strong.

My brother and I were still in high school playing football, and we were both middleweight, and we couldn't find anyone else to fight in our weight class, so we'd fight each other. I was a stand-up fighter, and Ike was a weaving type of fighter, and we fought that way out there at Cy Young's farm, and we put on quite a show.

I'm pretty sure I could beat Tyron Woodley. Nothing against him.

I know the girls can't take my punches.

My first boxing experience came at around 14. There was always confrontation in the area I grew up in. My mentality, I'll be honest, was if someone tries it with me, I want to be able to knock them out.

A lot of people say I'm reckless and I take too many shots. I take shots on the forehead. There's nothing wrong with that. It puts me in punching range.

Go back and watch my old footage, man. Go back and watch my old fights. I knocked people out at 170 pounds.

Yeah, I miss that feeling of knocking somebody clean out. There's nothing like it when you go into a fight and you just take 'em up out of there with just one punch. It's just the best feeling in the world.

A lot of fighters complain, 'Man he's five pounds heavier than me.' Really? It doesn't matter, man.

Lot of guys can take punches. The idea is not to take unnecessary punishment.

Getting to fight at my natural weight, that was huge for me.

If I went up there and beat T.J. Dillashaw at 135 pounds, I have no interest whatsoever in staying at 135. People are like, 'Why not?' and I'm like, 'I have no interest in fighting guys who walk around at 160 pounds.'

Kids always used to come up and ask me if I ever fought Mike Tyson, and I used to tell them that we couldn't because we were in different weight classes.