Fighter Quotes - Page 33

• The cat and mouse game is smart, but people want to see fighters who come to win, or do not wait to go to the judges. When the fight goes all the way, they see the spirit of the person that wants to win.

  Evander Holyfield

  Smart, Cat, Fighting

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• I do not lose; I just do not get decisions sometimes. You lose when you quit. I have never quit. When it comes down to a decision, judges make a decision as to which fighter they want to win the fight. I have always been able to survive no matter whom they decide to give the fight to.

  Evander Holyfield

  Fighting, Winning, Giving

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• Either I believe I can be the best heavyweight fighter in the world and beat everyone, or I will not. I feel I can beat everyone as a heavyweight.

  Evander Holyfield

  Believe, Heavyweights, World

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• When you refuse to fight guys because you say you are better than them, that is not really being the best. If I could just fight certain fighters that fit my style, I would look great in all of them.

  Evander Holyfield

  Fighting, Guy, Style

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• My goal is to be the best fighter in the world, UFC Heavyweight Champion. There is no back-up plan.

  Brock Lesnar

  Goal, Champion, Heavyweights

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• When you go into MMA you really can't do it half-assed. If you do it half-assed, then you're going to get annihilated. You're going to get destroyed out there: there are some really good fighters out there.

  Bobby Lashley

  Good Fight

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• It's kind of the period of your career where as a fighter, you need some sort of validation from time to time. I mean, winning matches and going off to the next one, without really having any direction, it's fun, but it's good to have a period where you can say "Ok, I won a title. Ok, I got picked up by a big organization." So every step in there is important.

  Bobby Lashley

  Fun, Mean, Winning

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• Mike Tyson has to be one of my greatest all time fighters. Muhammad Ali. I like going back looking at the classics like Roberto Duran. I like the old time fighters, when you had a champion in the old days you really had a true champion. Muhammad Ali would take on anybody. You had the greats fighting everybody.

  Keith Thurman

  Fighting, Champion, Muhammad

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• I have great skills. I can fight anybody, anywhere, anytime. I have done it in the past. I am on a different level than everyone else in the game of boxing. Nobody taught me how to fight. I was born a fighter. Everybody else was taught. That is the difference. I would rather show them than talk about it.

  James Toney

  Fighting, Past, Boxing

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I do not care who I fight. Line them up. I will let the fans pick. That is the way to do it because I am a fans' fighter. I want to fight the people they want me to fight. I will fight Tyson, Lewis, Tua, Rahman, whoever. I am a real fighter. You do not see too many real fighters out there today. You have these patsy papier - mâché champions.

  James Toney

  Real, Fighting, People

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• Boxing is a business. I have been in the professional game for five years now - I'm not doing it for nothing. I am doing it so I can provide for my future family, so I can have a future. I am here to make money. And at the same time I'm the most exciting fighter in Britain, if not the world, in my opinion. I don't know anybody else in the game that does the things I do in the ring.

  Chris Eubank, Jr.

  Boxing, World, Opinion

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• If a fighter suffers defeat, especially in a fight he feels he won, it will never leave his mind. He is always going to want to avenge that loss.

  Chris Eubank, Jr.

  Fighting, Loss, Mind

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I am not going to sell my soul for a fight. Some promoters don't believe in the philosophy that the fighters get the lion's share of a fight. They think they should be getting the lion's share for making the calls, for sitting on the chairs and discussing what is going to happen on the night. My father and I are the fighters - we don't believe in that.

  Chris Eubank, Jr.

  Father, Philosophy, Believe

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Foreign fighters are travelling into Iraq to make it a front line in the war on terror. And I would rather defeat them there than face them in our own country.

  George W. Bush

  Country, War, Defeat

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• There is still boxing, but there's just no money in it anymore. If you went around the world and asked a bunch of people under 20 years old, to name a boxer, I bet they couldn't name one. They'd be able to name a UFC fighter though. When I was younger there was Mike Tyson and we watched everything. I'm not saying its gone, or its going to go, and it could easily be ignited by another fighter, but it's just that idea that UFC is more violent, that desire for more spectacle, has captured people's attention.

  Hugh Jackman

  People, Boxing, Desire

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I guess there hasn't been a tough enough opponent for me to fight. But fighting a southpaw is OK. It's something different and maybe I need something different. I look at a right-handed fighter then I look at a left-handed fighter, and it's even better.

  Brandon Rios

  Fighting, Different, Tough

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• I can't overlook any opponent because all fighters are dangerous. Every fighter is dangerous.

  Brandon Rios

  Dangerous

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• Sometimes the image of the intellectual boxer did for me more harm than good. If a boxer has a reputation as an intellectual, some people no longer respect him as a fighter. With me it was always ‘Lennox should react, not think’. But that’s nonsense. Only the guy who controls his opponent wins.

  Lennox Lewis

  Winning, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesn’t. They can build up fighters or knock them down.

  Lennox Lewis

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was christened the "British Bulldog" by friends and colleagues who said I not only looked like a bulldog but fought like one. I was more of a fighter than a boxer. The "Blackpool Rock" originated from the fact that previous to becoming a fighter I was employed in the Blackpool Rock Factory, rock being a form of what Americans call candy.

  Brian London

  Candy

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• Some politicians are scared of Putin and some are extremely apologetic, actually. And I feel very sorry for this because some people who are like my friends from the left flank, they praise Putin because they see him as the fighter against American imperialism, which he is not. You know, why would you select between American imperialism and Russian imperialism? To my mind, it's exactly the same thing.

  Ilya Ponomarev

  Sorry, People, Mind

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If you're a good fighter on the street, you don't have to tell anybody that you're good at fighting. Let someone else talk about how great you are at this or that or whatever is the case. And if no one finds out then no one finds out, that's fine too. But I think leading by example is always the strongest.

  Caleb Landry Jones

  Fighting, Thinking, Good Fight

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think everyone is pretty excited about me. I have a style that any fight fan would love. I am a real value-for-money fighter. People want to see me against the elite.

  Ricky Hatton

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Most of this film, however, is about interpretation - are these people terrorists or freedom fighters? Are they good or bad? Is cutting timber good or bad? And I don't feel like the answers to those questions are simple, so we don't try to answer them for the audience. I wanted to elicit the strongest - and most heartfelt - arguments from the characters in the film and let those arguments bang up against the strongest arguments of their opponents.

  Marshall Curry

  Character, Cutting, Simple

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• I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'

  Christina Aguilera

  Years, Fans, Bottles

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