Top 131 Quotes & Sayings by Andre Ward - Page 2

Manny Pacquiao has a whole country behind him. His journey and his rise, from a career standpoint, he was fortunate to have a lot of great opponents and rivalries for years. People forget about Barrera and Morales and those guys. That's how he built his legacy. Plus he had a country behind him.

My legacy is so, so important to me.

My thing is that if you love the sport, appreciate the sport as a whole. If you love the sport, you love the slick boxer; you love the guy who can box and punch. You love the brawler.

You don't get points for leaving the chin open.

I'm just trying to get those marquee victories and continue to get those accomplishments so when the time comes and the vote is cast, hopefully my spot is secured in the Boxing Hall of Fame.

From my position, obviously I want to maximise my potential and go as far as I can go and as high as I can go, but I'm not chasing fame. I get enough of that.

I'm just being me. If I'm not enough, I don't know what to tell you. I'm not going to apologize about it.

I don't think anyone in that Roc Nation office gets eight hours of sleep; I highly doubt it. They're constantly working, and they're on top of everything, and they have a department for everything.

Once you go up in weight, I will never go down; you just don't do it.

Once a fighter becomes enamoured with another, to the point where they can't perform and compete, you have got problems.

Boxing is not that complicated. If two guys want to fight, it's not hard to make a fight. If the fight's not made, it's because one party doesn't want that fight, or maybe both parties don't want it.

My question is why does every African American fighter have to be the villain?

People who know me know that I'm not going to open my mouth and say something if I don't mean it. I'm very short and sweet. I'm old-school when it comes to it: I say what I mean and mean what I say, and then get off of it. It's simple as that.

There's always great things that champions do. It can be inside fighting, this person uses his range well, this person has a great right hand - anytime you fight a champion, there's multiple things that they do well, and you have to try to take those strengths away.

Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.

I was surprised at how slow Froch was. We were able to beat him to the punch.

He was competitive in every fight and brought his best every time out, so I have nothing personal against Froch. I actually like him a lot because he reminds me a lot of myself with his competitiveness.

At the end of the day, the great ones - well, they rise, and that's what I want to do.

Anytime you fight a champion, you got to watch the tape closely and study him closely.

Sometimes you're going to win close fights, and that's the way it is.

I have never won big fights just doing one thing, being one-dimensional.

One of the reasons why I signed up with Roc Nation was because of their ability to not just have a vision of doing things but the actual ability and resources to carry that vision out.

You have to change on the fly. You have to adapt. It's what I do. It's what wins for me.

You're going to face adversity. It's not if - it's when.

I know I'm a good fighter, probably a great fighter. I've fought the best in the world since I was a kid, and I've been fortunate to come out on top.

I got an old school coach who's more of a teacher than a coach.

That's why I train the way I train. I don't like to lose.

I typically do the opposite of what people think I am going to do.

I'm a five-time world champion in two different weight classes. Man, it's amazing.

In terms of PPV, you've got to have the right dancing partner.

When you make a stance, sometimes there are consequences.

I don't have one polarizing message. It is just about being consistent over the years.

People don't realize I tore my rotator cuff when I was 12 or 13. At that time, being so young, we decided just to not have surgery.

I want to be able to look back and say that I stood where I was supposed to stand. I fought where I was supposed to fight, in the ring and out of the ring.

I get the headlines for being slick and different things like that - which is part of my game - but it's just amazing to me that a lot of times, the people don't see the other things that go on in that ring. But a lot of times, when my opponents figure it out, the fight is over. It's too late.

There's a lot of ways to win a belt, but taking it from a champion is very important to me.

There are times and places for tune-ups and stay-busy fights.

I don't necessarily think fighters should fight killers every time, but at some point in time, fighters should be fighting the best in their division, period.

You have to be able to adjust on the fly, and that is what the great ones do.

What you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control.

That's what makes a fighter. I got dropped and I got back up, and I found a way to get the win.

I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.

I think he takes a good shot, I take a good shot too, but taking too many shots is not good for any fighter. And it's not really a reputation you want.

It's not about size, it's a science.

I told myself that I'll do everything within my power to never let that happen again.

Even if you are sick, you fight until you have nothing left.

I'm not gloating over Chad Dawson, he's still the man in my book.

The way my father raised me, we don't pat ourselves on the back. We don't call ourselves great, we let other people do that.

I want my legacy to be that I was a man of character, I was a God fearing man and somebody who bettered the sport in terms of the way I represented the sport. But also that fact that I was a fierce competitor and fought the best in the world and was able to come out on top, so if those things could be said about me, then I look at it as a job well done.

In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.

I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.

Do the work and then let the rest speak for itself and know that it feels personal, I knew it for me when I was younger. It all feels so personal, but if it's for you, it's for you. And if it's not, that's okay because the other door will open. The right door will open.

The road I've taken to this point has not been easy. Being back on HBO is a big thing, but fighting on HBO in my hometown is huge. To be great you have to fight the best. Chad has beaten the best so these are the type fights I want to take. I will put on a great show for all the fans that come out to Oracle Arena.

You're only as good as your last fight. It's just the way things are. It's the way that the sport is built.

I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.

Every fighter is my toughest challenge to date. After I get done with one fight, the next challenge is the toughest.

I'm not going to say that I'm the best, we respect our champions. Floyd's been doing this a lot longer than me, he's been a lot of mega fights and I won't dare say that I'm better than Floyd Mayweather.

He's built up to be invincible and no man is invincible, any man can be knocked out.

A lot of people look for you to change. Everything has stayed the same. Financially, this is God's money, and my wife and I are just stewards of it.

It's one thing to have an eye for the sport, and it's another to have a feel for the sport. He has both.