Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.
Lennox Lewis after the fight promised to give me rematch, and I very appreciate I have a chance to fight the great champion, great fighter that's Lennox Lewis.
Paolo Maldini. He was tough, tough, every time we played against each other. And I played against him many times. He's a very good friend.
I think the Eddie Alvarez fight is a good fight that makes sense - a couple Italian guys throwing down. I've got nothing but respect for the guy.
My philosophy is to respect the opposition off the field and play it as tough as possible on it.
Lee is such a brilliant rival. I treasure the opportunities we have to play each other.
Sometimes you'll get a player who's marking you tightly, and he'll even apologise and say, 'My coach told me to stick close to you and mark you. I know you're a great player.' But I tell him it's fine and to do what he has to do.
...you could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was the best.
There's a fiercely competitive rivalry between myself and Virat Kohli - but also enormous mutual respect.
For sure, Jacare would be a great opponent. I have all the respect for him, but I would like a lot to have the opportunity of facing him someday.
I have so much respect for Rose Namajunas, same as I had before the first fight.
The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
It's nice when you can have that battle on the pitch and then there's respect after the game because, ultimately, you are just trying to do your best.
I don't think there is a need to treat matches with India like a matter of life and death. We need to take cricket as cricket.
I have multiple friends on other teams who after a game, they'll tell me the game plan... part of the game plan is to stop you. It's a respect factor.
