Top 130 Quotes & Sayings by Carl Froch
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
I don't need to do that many weights but every now and then I do the bar, with 25-30 kilos on either side, which amounts to roughly probably my body weight. I lift this up above my head, then drop it and lift it up again.
If Mikkel Kessler thinks I'm going soft just because I'm a dad then he's the one who's gone soft in the head.
There's no proof of the Earth's curvature and this fake space agency Nasa use CGI images and every one is different.
I don't actually think boxing is a particularly dangerous sport, I wouldn't even put it in the top ten of dangerous sports, but that's only if you take it seriously. Whenever I stepped into the ring I was well hydrated, I was at the right weight and I was prepared. It wasn't a dangerous sport for me.
When people retire, they should stay retired.
My final fight was called 'Unfinished Business' - and I finished it.
The only person in the world who could knock me out is my anaesthetist.
The Earth is flat, 100 per cent.
The Golovkin thing came up and I said 'fight me at 172lbs and I'll think about it' and he wanted me to go down to 166. He wouldn't even come up to super-middle and I was already retired by that point.
I've had an operation on my knee, two operations on my hand, injuries on elbows and stuff but you get through it.
I've been in the ring with big-muscled heavyweights and cruiserweights, who couldn't punch the skin off a rice pudding, and then I've taken on light welterweights and light middleweights, and they hit hard, and you can see they're not trying.
I never cheated on nutrition, I always had a really good diet and I always supplemented well - that's a massive factor in any sport. Even in everyday life, if people are just going to the gym recreationally, they'll have targets in mind and if you're not supplementing correctly or concentrating on your diet, you're wasting your time.
If Jermain Taylor was a bit fitter and he had a bit more steam in the tank towards the end, he might have survived and won on points, but he didn't have any energy left in the tank, because I sapped it out of him. I absolutely punched holes in him for the last three rounds.
It's not too late actually to speak to somebody about psychology, it's never too late.
Golovkin cannot win a fight against me, he's not big enough.
I was 5ft 3in tall until I was 17. Then I suddenly shot up.
Andre Ward beat me fair and square on points in a boring fight, a dull affair. Same as when he beat Kessler. Headbutted him to bits, but he knows how to win. He wins ugly, but he knows how to win.
You manage your injuries if you're serious about fighting.
Some fighters had blinding speed and reflexes in their heyday but faded badly with age.
Your fitness is your ability to recover and you can't recover when you're old.
Make no mistake, the days and hours before going into the ring can be stressful for any boxer. The bigger and tougher the fight the greater stress, But if a boxer knows he's stepping out of his league it's even worse.
I'm not in this for superstardom. I do it purely for the love of the sport. I just love fighting.
I know what it's like to fight against the crowd from when I went to Denmark to fight Mikkel Kessler. He's like David Beckham over there, he gets blanket coverage in the papers all week, and you could hear a pin drop when I was landing my shots. There was no respect for The Cobra out there. There was no noise, no love, nothing.
I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.
Gennady Golovkin is a small middleweight, I'm a big super-middleweight. The fight was maybe talked about a year after I retired and it was never going to happen.
No sport is more geared to the warrior's code of honour, pride and respect. That's why I love boxing. It's mano a mano. One against one. It's driven by fear and your need to conquer it.
Sparring is not as tough as a fight.
I always wanted my job to be something I that loved doing.
I watched Sly Stallone and the 'Rocky' movies over and over again. They were fantastic.
I've won titles at home, I've won them abroad, I've defended titles abroad and lost them, and gone on to dominate my next opponent to win them back.
I haven't had the recognition I deserve. You can go back to anybody's career - Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe, David Haye, Amir Khan, Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Steve Collins, Naseem Hamed. My record is better than all of theirs. I've won against more unbeaten fighters than any of them, had more exciting fights.
I don't look at my opponent's eyes in the ring. I watch his gloves so that I can block or avoid his punches.
People have been upset in the past about pay-per-view fights because they got sold a lie or an illusion that was not real.
Closer to a fight, I can really feel my heartbeat in my chest. I can hear it beat through my mouth, this 'gunk, gunk, gunk' rhythm.
I've kept improving in many ways. Boxers evolve with experience.
There have been many boxing comebacks over the years, and sadly many of them do not have a happy ending.
You can improve your punching power, but only to an extent. If you can punch hard, then it's just god-given, that's just nature, not nurture and there's not much you can do to develop punching power.
What I will say though is that I've got quite a big back, from doing pull-ups, and that will make your punches more solid. But in terms of the hardness of your punch, it's about timing and speed.
I always give Calzaghe credit. He was a great fighter, really tough, unbeaten in 46 fights. He's never, ever given me any props at all. And for that I'd love to punch him in the face really hard.
When good fighters fight, they often make predictions. It's all part of the media hype beforehand.
Many top professional sportsmen from different sports see a psychologist.
The general public don't like boxers. They prefer tennis players.
I don't think I'll be fighting when I'm 40.
I say that I'm genetically gifted. In a weight-governed sport, I don't put weight on because of my Polish 'heritage, it's genetic. Even when I am not in training, I don't put on weight. When I start training, I don't need to take a lot of weight off.
I'm quite a ruthless, cold-hearted bastard. I always have been.
Boxing's a bit like the Army, nine out of 10 people come out as pretty nice people. It taught me self-worth, to respect my elders and what the right thing was to do. As a result, I don't think I even got a single detention at school. It helped me to be good.
I'll never be able to replace the feeling of standing victorious in the ring, that's never going to happen again and I'm never going to fight again.
Apparently, we've been to the moon in 1969, 1970. We've been there six times, I don't believe a word of it. Some people do.
There is an age limit of 35 on amateur boxing. They should consider putting an age limit on professional boxing.
It might sound strange now from where I'm standing as a world boxing champion, but I harboured serious thoughts, at the age of nine, of putting my whole life into snooker. I remember being fascinated by the game, watching the likes of Steve Davis, and thought I would do it.
I boxed till my late 30s, so 47, that's impossible really to be at your best and if you aren't at your best you shouldn't be boxing.
I can say, 'right, I will stop this kid in round five.' If I am good enough to do that then fair enough. I don't gamble but my brothers and my friends, they did quite well off it.
I won four world titles, got beat twice - but avenged one of those losses - and the other loss was on points to someone who was unbeaten in Andre Ward. I had a comfortable, successful career and it wasn't through natural ability but through dedication and hard work.
There's something weird about me the way even the biggest punches to the jaw don't wobble me, but if you can avoid being hit too often, so much the better.
Boxing is not like any other sport, you have to weigh up the risk and reward. Things like playing football, tennis, you might be three sets to love down, but boxing you're going to the hospital on a stretcher and you know potentially you are going to get an injury you can't walk away from.
Sometimes big boxing matches should take place on the cobbles. That's really where Mikkel Kessler and me ought to have sorted it out.
When someone like Richard Branson goes up there and starts doing chartered flights... and you can look back on Earth and see the Earth's curvature, I'll believe the Earth is a globe.
A three-month training camp writes you off, I wake up and I literally can't get out of bed.
I don't hype a fight to sell tickets.
You can't talk about Golovkin in the same breath as me. If he thinks he can beat me, he's not from planet Earth.
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