Lennox Lewis Quotes

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.

It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age.

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.

Whatever I do, I always want to get better.

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.

I cannot fight everyone at once. I have to take one at a time.

I just want to complete my legacy.

I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.

In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there.

I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.

I'm undisputed and there's no disputing that.

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.

People know I was the last true champion.

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.

The Tyson fight was like the hardest I ever trained for a fight in my entire career.

I think Kirk Johnson is a more exciting fighter than Chris Byrd. A lot of people agree with me when it comes to that.

[Wladimir] Klitschko has got the experience, so if Tyson [Fury] waits on him, Klitschko will out-box him. But if he uses his speed and reach it will be a great chance for him to win.

You can just fight one man at a time.

For me, there's never any bad blood - unless you do something to me.

I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knowk you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting.

Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them.

When I was fighting Tyrell Biggs, Tyson was telling me at ringside to hit him to the ribs. We always had a mutual respect for each other since we sparred those early times. We got that over with.

I have always said I am a five-dimensional fighter.

The fight will last as long as I allow it to last.

People want to see me back in the ring. I think it is more of a drag lying around on the beach.

I am going to have one Klitschko for breakfast and one Klitschko for lunch.

After about 25 fights you don't always have to keep going to the bathroom before the fight.

Different fights bring out different things. I consider myself a seasoned professional. I have done things in the gym that have not come out yet. People would be amazed if they saw me train.

I don't have anything else to prove.

You’'ve got to understand that everything has its time. I had wonderful years as a boxer, I achieved everything. I don’t miss anything.

When I saw Tyson knocking everybody out on TV, I thought, He's goooood. But when I saw him in person, he didn't look as awesome.

During the past twenty-three years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I’m proud to say that these goals have been achieved.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.

I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world.

I don't see where Tyson Fury has boxed anybody of Wladimir's [ Klitschko] calibre to be able to get in the ring with Wladimir and do well.

Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.