Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Callum Smith - Page 2

I concentrate on myself and make sure the best version of me turns up, and if that's the case, I believe I beat anyone in the world.

Sleepless nights I'm not a big fan of to be honest.

I'm too professional, too much of a perfectionist to take my eye off the ball.

It's very rare in British boxing that you have two fighters who are both undefeated and who are both world champions.

Boxing is a part of my life but it's only a small part.

Everyone aims to get close to me and I've got to learn how to be able to cope, and that's what we work on all the time.

When I left school I went to college and then I remember doing three weeks labouring for someone and it was the worst three weeks of my life.

It's never been Badou Jack or James DeGale that I want to fight, it's the World title that I want; it doesn't matter to me who it is.

I believe I've shown my worth, become a world champion, now I want to try and see how good I am. The only way I'll find that out is by testing myself against the best.

I've been working on my power, obviously I do my strength work, I'm learning the technical things as well.

If I can't get a unification fight, then there's other tops names, even though they haven't got a world title, ie Golovkins, stuff like that.

When I was about 17 I was on the G.B. squad and that's where I wanted to be. I went to the Commonwealth Games and got silver there, but the three years I was on the team it was London-this, London-that. It was all preparation for the Olympics.

You can be world champion, but ranked No 6 in the world, with there being four champions.

No. 1 in the world is the ultimate goal for me.

I've got a height advantage over everyone but when they do get at me I can fight just as well inside.

Number one is somewhere I always believed I would be.

My mum was always saying when we were kids: 'If you don't do you homework you're not going to the gym.' She was always a big believer in having something to fall back on.

I'm a big believer that, if you're good enough, then why wait around fighting a load of journeymen for a few years? If you're good enough, then step up.

I want to see how good I am, and the only way to do that is to fight the best in the division.