Top 95 Quotes & Sayings by Kell Brook
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Everyone in boxing knows that I am a big guy.
There have been some dark times. But what I've realised is that I love this sport.
My opponent DeLuca is a strong, gutsy fighter who is always ready for war.
I will fight anyone, what the fans want, where the money is.
I saw many people talk about how I would avoid Errol Spence. They don't know me, they don't know what I'm about.
I believe in God, Almighty. I'm a Christian.
Who knows how long I have got left. I could be like Bernard Hopkins.
If I can't beat DeLuca, how can I say I want to fight the elite of the sport, rematch Errol Spence or fight Terence Crawford? There's no point and I don't have the right to call for world titles. No - I have to win.
I'm petrified of spiders, I've just never liked them.
I'm interested in any light-middleweight. If they've got a belt, even if they think they're the hardest in the division, I can beat all of them.
I know I've cut corners in every single fight I've had because I've used my ability to get through.
I have realised I have been cheating myself and it is me who pays for it. So I am going to give myself the best opportunity to give my all. It's me who walks in my shoes.
I'm gutted, devastated that in front of my own fans I've lost my belt.
Once I've got my legs under me and I'm fit and healthy, I'm a hard, hard man to beat.
I got a bit down, depressed and fat, but I needed to be out of the game to realise I need boxing.
Listen, people that know me, know I've got a lion heart.
I have a huge house surrounded by luxury but I've earned it.
I'm going to show the world that I'm the best welterweight on the planet and I'm going to do it right before my people's eyes.
I'm more vicious in sparring when I am around 160 pounds or coming down from heavier than that.
Dominic Ingle has seen me probably from 9 years old coming through. He was watching from the outside.
Boxers put themselves on the line, they put their lives at risk, so it's up to the boxers to make sure they are healthy and sharp because we are giving the public what they want to see.
2019, I'm coming for those big boys; I will go to welterweight.
I'm after people that want to fight, who are the real people. The real fighting men, that's what I want to deal with.
It's a short-lived career and I think I am in my prime now. I'm 34-0 and I want to go to 35-0 in spectacular fashion, and then the world is my oyster.
Being able to adjust - to any fighter, no matter what pressure he can give me - I'm going to show I can do all that.
Small things make me smile.
I want to make a serious legacy.
When I was drinking I was thinking I was having a good time but it came back twice as bad, the depression. It was just a vicious circle - drinking, not caring about myself - and it gave me a bad low.
People go on about weight. Mike Tyson wasn't the biggest heavyweight and he was an animal.
I'm going to follow the greats and make history. The likes of Felix Trinidad, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao have all moved through the weights to prove they are greats at all weights.
I'm the nicest kid. I'm not a big head.
Liam Smith hasn't got a belt, but I can get excited about that fight. If they pay me seven figures for the fight, I'll take that fight.
People have seen I've got a big heart in there and I'm willing to fight with the biggest punchers.
Since I was 9 years old, I've been training to be a champion.
I've had X-rays on both eyes, the bone has grown back and I have plates over each one, so I'm like a Terminator now and ready to walk through walls.
This has been a dream of mine since I was a kid... I'm passionate about being a world champion, believe me.
I saw Bob Arum out in America, I saw him walking through the lobby in the MGM Grand. I basically went over and said: 'You're running out of opponents for Crawford and I'm the guy to beat him. I'm here.' I saw Terence Crawford, he said he was ready for it, so everybody is on the same page. Everyone wants to make the fight.
I am going to go after the big names in America and the fights all the fans want.
It's a beautiful sport, boxing, when you're winning and everything is going well but when you hit the lows it really upsets you.
You can't work me hard enough in the gym, I just want more.
I've got all the attributes. I've got the sharpness. I've got everything you need to be a top fighter.
The fans pay our wages and I want to give back to the fans. I have been telling them for ages that I want big fights and they haven't believed me. They don't know the politics that go on behind the scenes through no fault of my own.
If I lose to DeLuca I will announce my retirement in the ring after.
You need to be a complete fighter - the heart, the chin, the toughness. You've got to have it all.
I'm not usually a drinker.
I'm going to get better and better. You never stop learning in this game.
I did speak to a counsellor after hitting rock bottom. It really did help, talking to somebody that didn't know me and just pouring my heart out to them in a few sessions.
I've gone from the top of the world to the bottom of the ocean.
I'm actually a mummy's boy.
I have had some dark times, it was a frustrating 2019. I was pushing for the Terence Crawford fight but, through no fault of my own, I did not get any of the big fights I wanted.
I'd like a big fight in America, it would cap off my career in a great way.
Two-time world champion - that's my goal.
When you win everything is great but when you're losing nobody wants to know you - except for the people that really love you.
I want bigger fights. Amir Khan doesn't want to listen to me. Why? It's getting boring.
I know it's near the end and when it's over I want to be able to say to myself - not anyone else - that I've given it everything. At least in the last part of my career.
It's depression. You can't put it into words. You get stuck and time passes by. I'm stood there on the edge of a cliff, can't go back and can't go forward. Days go by. I'm still in the same place. Everyone else's life goes on, but you're stuck. You try and try and try and I don't know how, but you came out of it eventually.
I know I've been out for a while and but I'm not going to talk about ring rust or use it as an excuse. That's nothing to me. Sugar Ray Leonard was out of the ring for years and he beat Hagler.
I'm a young lion and I believe I can be one of the greats.
I'm a born and bred Sheffield man and I just want the city to do well with sport.
I can't really explain how high the feeling was winning that world title in California with my family watching me.
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