Jake LaMotta Quotes

I've been fighting professionally since I was 18, and I've been doing three or four fights a year, just doing camp after camp.

I've had over seven thousand pro fights.

Counting amateur fights, I have over a thousand bouts.

I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.

There were a lot of fighters who were better than me that got knocked out and stopped because they stayed in the game too long. That never happened to me. I don't know that feeling. I thank God so much that that didn't happen to me.

To be just straight up honest, Conor McGregor is a guy that fought at 145 - ever in his life. I haven't weighed 145 since my sophomore year of high school.

I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.

In 20 years of career and 50 professional fights, I never refused to test or failed to apply for a license to fight.

I was never tested in my first 21 fights.

We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of Floyd Mayweather, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao. We'll overstay our welcome.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.

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

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five.

I'm very experienced in four-round fights because of my amateur career, and I've got a high work rate.

I know I've been out for a while and but I'm not going to talk about ring rust or use it as an excuse. That's nothing to me. Sugar Ray Leonard was out of the ring for years and he beat Hagler.

Mr. Efrain Escudero is a great fighter and TUF Champ. He has fought in big fights, and has a great record.

Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, pound-for-pound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss.

Obviously, every fighter wants to be the world champion, and that's what I want to achieve.

Mike Tyson is a good boxer, but he is not the best fighter. I am the best fighter.

I've been at super middleweight for a long time.

I don't want to fight no up-and-coming guy, no guy that's 15-0 but hasn't faced anybody yet.

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

I've been in there with, to me, some top-tier guys, and so has Trout. You can't take that away from him at all. He's fought all of the top guys, everybody.

The thing that people don't know about me - I actually boxed amateur for a few years.