Amir Khan Quotes

Every man who gets in that ring has the ability to hurt you.

Every time a fighter steps into the ring, he's borrowing against his future well-being.

Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.

From a young age, I was told boxing was not a career option. My dad told me there were other ways to make a living in sport without taking punches to the head. But eventually, curiosity got the better of me. I needed to find out what the big deal was.

Kenny Norton hit me so hard that it still hurts. Now there was a case of two fighters who did not like each other.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

I thought boxing was stupid.

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

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

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.

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.

When you're out there doing things, your adrenaline is rushing so much. But getting kicked in the face is never fun. There have been a lot of different painful things, but when you're kicked in the face or kneed in the face, it's not the most pleasant thing.

We all know, going into this business and stepping into the ring, there's a possibility of injury. But you're never expecting it to happen, and when it does, it's just the worst thing ever.

All it takes is one punch, one big punch, and that could wreck everything for me.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

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

When you go into a 'WWE' ring, you know you're going to compete. You know that things are going to hurt. It is a dangerous, dangerous place. No matter what people think or say, it's a very, very dangerous thing.

It's a dangerous sport - we all know that going in.

Boxing is a hurt game if you can't be at your best, can't be 100 per cent mentally and physically switched on to performing, to win titles, defend titles, defend yourself in the correct fashion, then I don't think you should fight.

In boxing, if a fighter doesn't leave the sport on time, something bad is likely to happen.

This is boxing. It's not like a baseball game. The fighters say, 'I need a lot of money or I don't fight, because it's very dangerous.'