I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.
There have been many boxing comebacks over the years, and sadly many of them do not have a happy ending.
Boxers put themselves on the line, they put their lives at risk, so it's up to the boxers to make sure they are healthy and sharp because we are giving the public what they want to see.
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.
I wouldn't be boxing if I wasn't given the all-clear by the doctors, I wouldn't put my family or myself through that.
You know if you want to be a boxer the first time you get hit on the nose.
Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.
I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.
It's not a game. You can't play boxing.
I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions and head injury, it is becoming more evident that we need to protect our brains as much as possible. There hasn't been enough research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.
If I could ban boxing, I probably would, but I'll tell you in the same breath, I loved it growing up.
I'm very lucky because less than one percent of boxers get out of the game financially secure.
Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.
All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.
This is no game. You get up in there, and you take some punches. You risk your life, and then let me see you talk then. That's why I don't respect people who criticize fighters.
In boxing, you've got CTE from head trauma constantly.
I have seen the consequences of what can happen in boxing.
In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.
Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.
I've boxed on with cuts, broken jaws, everything.
Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.
I don't want my kids to box - no way.
Boxing is a dangerous, cruel sport. I love the sport, but I don't want to see my kids in the ring, potentially being hurt, with me not being able to do nothing to help them.
It's not uncommon for some Khmer boxers to fight with dangerous frequency, sometimes as often as weekly or bi-weekly, getting up to three hundred or more fights in a career, with the length of a career varying from fighter to fighter, some engaging in bouts far past their prime.
I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.
