Thomas Hauser Quotes

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 experience of boxing. I know what it is like to be hit. Half my life is boxing. I start fighting when I am 16.

This is not a sport for me - I live boxing. I've been boxing since I was seven years old.

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

I never have the plan to overtake boxing. I love boxing; I came from boxing.

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.

When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.

I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

I remember when I used to go to York Hall and just watch, and I'd be like 'how are these people doing it.' Even though I was an amateur boxer at the time, I was like 'how are these guys fighting professionally in this arena?'

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

I feel great about the boxing in South Florida.

I've been boxing for 25 years and I need exciting fights.

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.

When we first started in Huntington Recreation with John Capobianco, we put four kids in the Golden Gloves finals. We didn't even have a ring. We trained at Stimson Junior High School. They give us the gym three nights a week. We used to box in the gym - no ring, just on the gym floor.

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.

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.

Boxing is serious. It's not a game. Just one punch - change life.

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.

Featherweight is my division.

I don't really watch much boxing.

As an amateur, we used to fight people from the same gym. You'd spar with each other and then fight each other in championships.

You know if you want to be a boxer the first time you get hit on the nose.

Our boxing is not like the men's. It's more thoughtful, more technical. It's not just, 'Get in there and hurt someone.'