Boxing Mentality Quotes

You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy.

I don't get complacent, because I know if you slack off, you're going to be found out. This is international boxing, and every fight is a tough fight.

Boxing's a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.

I'm tactical, and I have a lot of heart - something that you don't see when you watch a lot of fights.

If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life... I try to live my life the same way.

I'll fight anyone. I've never turned down a fight in the UFC, and I'm here to fight.

I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.

I'm not really into researching my opponents or other fighters other than the ones that I like.

He says he was physically not right, that's fine but the mentality, even if you're not right, you're still in a fight and you still show what you have deep down inside, and I don't think he showed the mettle that he needed to show in that fight in order to beat a guy like Miranda.

I don't pick opponents. I don't care about who I'm going to fight.

As soon as I put on gloves, I knew. I felt heart and determination. It's in you, not on you. I just loved to fight and I knew that it was going to take me where I needed to go. I never had any doubt.

I like aggressive fighters who will come after me.

I treat myself more as an athlete instead of as a fighter. As a fighter, you're going out there as a street thug, relying on your hands, trying to knock someone out, being overly aggressive.

I like fighters who come to fight.

Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing.

I'm not a fighter to score points of fight with time limit.

It is a Polynesian thing where you are calm and relaxed in your approach to life. But, when you're in the ring, you really go for it.

So many fighters who fight Golovkin have lost before they've entered the ring.

In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the world like a hungry young lion.