Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.
I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20. I never watched a boxing match life in my life. The only boxer I had ever heard of was Muhammad Ali.
Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.
Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.
He looks up through blood smeared lips.
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.
I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
I love boxing, and I try to mix it up as much as I can. Boxing makes you kind of tight, so it's really good to mix that with barre, pilates, or something that'll stretch you out and make you longer. I'm not the person that loves to be in the gym so much. I like to mix it up as much as possible, otherwise I'll get bored.
If he says he has the pizzazz and the sizzle, I have the steak, and substance. I've made more money than he's made. I've made bigger deals than he's made, when he's got the complexion to get the protection.
Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing. That's what's great about the choreography that goes on here. It's a delicate ballet with a fist in the face.
I was a gorilla boxer. I had a full gorilla suit on with boxing gloves. I had an amateur belt on. No one knew that it was me in the costume and I was going into stores and scaring people and boxing on them. It was fun.
The side's all right, but my bloody knees are killing me!
Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.
Count 10 over him - he'll get up
Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.
I'm a big fan of the Rocky series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work
[David Haye] is the biggest diva that boxing has ever seen, I could not believe the demands.
Mexican style of boxing training is different from what my father had trained me. It was good for me because it was an added knowledge, an addition to my boxing IQ.
I think Mike Gibbons was probably the greatest boxer that ever put a glove on. They called him The Wizard, The Phantom of the ring and he was that. I boxed with Mike about ten years and I never really hit him a hard punch during the time. Repeating again, Mike was one of the great boxers of the age.
I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.
It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
