Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Amir Khan
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British athlete Amir Khan.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
I don't want to get punched all my life.
I'm an orthodox fighter, relaxed, fast, and powerful. And I've got good footwork.
We're prizefighters. That's what we become. Boxing has one of the biggest purses in sport. And in the sporting field, we probably make the most money.
Of course I will turn professional at some stage. Then I want to be a world champion and finish up a legend and be out of the sport by the time I am 27.
I respect other religions and other cultures.
With me being a sportsman and being an icon who people know, if I can even send a little message across which will maybe help a lot of people, I'm going to do that.
I've been to so many dos and presentation dinners and TV shows. I've been among all the top stars - soap stars, people from music - it's been brilliant. But I've kept my feet on the ground.
Boxing's not going to retire me; I'll retire from boxing. That's where most people make mistakes. They normally stay in the game a bit too long.
If you start throwing eight or nine shots, you're going to get caught - bang - and the fight could be over.
The Prescott fight made me change from a boy to a man: it took me out of my comfort zone because when you lose a fight, you look at the mistakes and everything. That is what happened. I've changed from a boy to a man.
I always said as an amateur that I'd want to one day fight and beat Kindelan because he was the best out there.
That's boxing - one punch can win a fight.
There were no Asian lads boxing when I started.
When you drop weight, the closer you come to the fight, the more your muscles tighten up.
I want to thank Kotelnik for letting me have a shot at the title. I'm so confident I'm going to beat him. He thinks that me moving up a weight, I won't be as strong, but I'm very strong. I'm a hard-hitting fighter.
I'm proud to be British.
I've been working a lot on my lateral movement, and angles - it's coming natural to me now - and on different techniques, keeping my hands right.
I know people didn't think I'd become a world champion - even people probably in my own camp, my own team, didn't think I'd become a world champion this quickly.
Straight after the Prescott fight, people were saying, 'He's finished. He's not going to come back.' There were only racial remarks made. But, you know what, it made me stronger. It made me come back even stronger. It made me a better fighter.
You never know what will happen in the future - I would never say 'no' to getting into MMA.
If I get a bit big-headed, I get a good clip round the ear from my family and friends. I'm still the same person.
I have been very lucky with what I have achieved.
Kell Brook was saying he wants to forget about Amir Khan; he wants to fight Pacquiao and Mayweather. These guys don't know who Kell Brook is.
I can only say that sometimes skin colour does make a difference.
Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales are the guys I want to base myself on. They fight with their whole heart and with such work-rate. They just don't stop punching. I want to be like that - never boring.
Religion was very influential because when it got really bad, and you don't know who to turn to, but I turned to God and was praying and meditating, that really helped.
I want to retire from boxing by the time I am 25 or 26 and be a legend by that age.
Floyd Mayweather has fought the biggest names throughout his career and has earned the right to face whoever he chooses.
The good thing about being nervous is that you perform better.
I used to eat what I want, on a junk diet, and used to think I could make my weight easy and kill myself over the last four or five days.
I try to fix things between the Asian community and the English community. There are always going to be racial things there, not getting on with each other and stuff. I have tried to break that barrier.
My main priorities were to fight for Britain. Not a lot of Asians get selected for this country at anything, and it's a great achievement.
People come into fights against me and say this and that, but when they realise how quick and how hard I hit, their game plan disappears.
All the bad press I was getting puts you on a downer, so really, you come to a stage where you start hating yourself, in a way, because you're not in control.
I did have a chance to box for Pakistan, but I've lived here all my life, gone to school; all my coaches and everyone's here, and I feel English.
In America, they treat me like God.
I think it is very important to keep the kids off the street and out of trouble.
I look out there, and I see that Floyd Mayweather stands head and shoulders above everyone else. He's another fighter I would like to base myself on because he's got incredible fast hands and feet. He's flashy but, man, is he good.
I want people talking about me as a great fighter - from being a prospect with the big pressure as soon as I turned professional, then going on to win the world title.
I came back from the Olympic Games, and straightaway, I'm this role model. So that means I can't mess around with my mates like I used to because, if I do, people are going to use it to knock me down.
Whose mother wants to see her son fight? It's very hard for her - but boxing is in my blood.
Boxing is an addiction.
I'm very experienced in four-round fights because of my amateur career, and I've got a high work rate.
You're always just one punch away from getting hurt. But look, if it's going to happen, it's going to happen. I think I'm going to walk out of this sport of boxing when I think it's the right time.
I'm just a fighter.
My grandfather on my dad's side was the first in our family to settle in the U.K. He came from Pakistan on his own in the '60s and worked in a cotton mill in Bolton, earning enough to bring over the rest of his family. My dad, Shah, was only about eight when he came to this country. Like most immigrants, he has a fierce work ethic.
Boxing changed my life twice.
One thing for sure is that I am not going to attempt to knock Barrera out. My boxing ability and my speed are the attributes that will get me the win.
I've won the world title - what I've dreamt of since the age of eight.
I know for a fact if I were a white English fighter, maybe I would have been a superstar in Britain - and the world.
What happened to me against Prescott didn't make Prescott a better fighter than me.
King chiller. That was me.
It's got difficult for me to walk down the street without people stopping me to ask for an autograph or to talk to me about boxing.
I'm confident I can take the gold in Beijing.
People always want to see that, the young lion going to take the old lion out.
Organic food is the best for you, and I'm eating the best, a lot of fresh vegetables. I also keep myself hydrated. It's all made a big difference to my performance in the gym.
I've always known that to have anything, you've got to work hard at it.
As an amateur, we used to fight people from the same gym. You'd spar with each other and then fight each other in championships.
I want a super-fight with a massive name, and I'd love it in a stadium.
My ambition from day one in this sport has been to become a world superstar.
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