To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that’s in rhythm or you’re in trouble.
Don’t let anything without a heart beat you.
You don’t think. It’s all instinct. If you stop to think, you’re gone.
Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don’t really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don’t like to fight.
Rhythm is everything in boxing...
My business is hurting people.
I ain’t never liked violence.
Hurting people is my business.
Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that’s in rhythm or you’re in trouble. Your rhythm should set the pace of the fight. If it does, then you penetrate your opponent’s rhythm. You make him fight your fight, and that’s what boxing is all about.