Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Carl Frampton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish boxer Carl Frampton.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Carl Frampton is a former professional boxer from Northern Ireland who competed from 2009 to April 2021. He is a former two-weight world champion, having held the WBA (Unified) and IBF super-bantamweight titles between 2014 and 2016, and the WBA (Super) featherweight title from 2016 to 2017. He also held the WBO interim featherweight title in 2018. At regional level, he held the European and Commonwealth super-bantamweight titles between 2011 and 2014.

Irish - Boxer | Born: February 21, 1987

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From Tiger's Bay in Belfast to the MGM in Vegas... it's been some ride so far. And the best is still to come.

Carl Frampton

If you worry about hurting your opponent you are probably in the wrong game, because it can happen. I wouldn't wish ill on anyone. I wanted to knock him out, not hurt him badly.

Carl Frampton

I love going home to Belfast on weekend breaks from training.

Carl Frampton

A loss in boxing is different to any sport. It can set your career back a few years. So I fear losing more than anything.

Carl Frampton

You're just taking punishment every day, getting hit all the time. That's something we're going to cut back on. I'll train hard but the sparring will be cut in half.

Carl Frampton

I remember going through checkpoints as a kid. It felt normal but, looking back, of course it created tension. People standing with guns, sometimes your car getting searched and being asked where you are going. It changes the atmosphere.

Carl Frampton

I was always quiet and even timid.

Carl Frampton

There was nothing special about me; there are boxers in Belfast who are more skilled but I had a bit between my teeth that drives me on.

Carl Frampton

I've got two kids and a missus. I don't want problems after boxing. You need to be careful.

Carl Frampton

I'm not a massive featherweight.

Carl Frampton

The most important thing in my life is my wife and kids, my family. Boxing is a close second.

Carl Frampton

I just want to win a world title - that's the main objective and whether it happens at Windsor or whether it happens in America it doesn't matter.

Carl Frampton

I get spotted quite a bit walking about the streets in Belfast and it's okay, I don't mind it, they come up and shake your hand.

Carl Frampton

But if I ever fight in Northern Ireland again, I want it to be at Windsor Park.

Carl Frampton

It's Northern Ireland, it's Ireland, it's Scotland, it's Wales, there's Scousers, Londoners, all behind me.

Carl Frampton

It's hard to believe I was just seven when I started boxing but I've put everything of myself into it.

Carl Frampton

It's good to go and get photographs taken with people who come out and support you. I don't mind that, having a chat and shaking people's hands.

Carl Frampton

There's not a better sporting spectacle than an evenly-matched fight.

Carl Frampton

I'll respect any man that walks into the ring but people like Eddie Hearn and Joe Gallagher who've never taken a slap in the mouth in their lives shouldn't be disrespectful towards me and other fighters.

Carl Frampton

I was a quiet kid on the streets. The loudmouths would push me around but when I was boxing, I was beating them up and it felt good.

Carl Frampton

In Tiger's Bay I saw trouble I shouldn't have seen. But 95% of the people there are good and they're coming out to support me - just like in New Lodge which is the opposition or whatever you want to call it.

Carl Frampton

Joe Gallager's like a petulant child sometimes. In press conferences, for instance, when we're talking, he's rolling his eyes like a schoolgirl, pretending he's not listening. It's disrespectful and I don't like that.

Carl Frampton

He still works in the local leisure centre and he's the union rep and a shop steward. Dad is very grounded. He's not bumptious or brash.

Carl Frampton

I'm prepared to do whatever it takes to win. I just don't want to lose.

Carl Frampton

I've always been the same since I was a kid, maybe it was the way I was brought up, but I've never liked arrogant people.

Carl Frampton

As a kid I could be in New Lodge in a minute. I'd go down our street, turn right and I was there.

Carl Frampton

If I could unify my second weight division, that would be huge.

Carl Frampton

There are more important things in life than boxing.

Carl Frampton

I was seven or eight and a kid who was easily picked on. Not bullied but other kids would've told me what to do in the streets. I was very shy. I used to put my head down.

Carl Frampton

My mum's very vocal about me, aye. She's very proud. It's just a bit embarrassing.

Carl Frampton

In boxing we're allowed to come togethwe. Protestants and Catholics, the north and south, everyone. I'm in an Irish vest, even on a mural in Tiger's Bay, because boxing brings the communities together.

Carl Frampton

That retirement plan I had, getting out by 32, may still be the case even though at the minute it's in the back of my mind. It's important to get out at the right time.

Carl Frampton

Boxing is a lonely sport and when you lose it's hard to take and it's hard to get over.

Carl Frampton

Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Carl Frampton

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