When we spar, we spar right-handers, we spar left-handers. We spar everybody.
When I come to spar, I definitely come to spar; I definitely come to fight.
When I was younger, growing up in Pittsburgh, they had a 'Golden Gloves' program through the Boys and Girls Club. In Pittsburgh, New York, Philly, Washington, those areas, I would go and spar at competitions.
When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!
A penny spar'd is twice got.
No author ever spar'd a brother.
A lot of fighters just go to the gym and spar or wrestle, but they forget about their conditioning. Things like that cause lots of injuries.
I used to spar Dillian when he was doing kick-boxing.
Some people spar five days a week.
I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.
I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.
I spar with Nick and Nate Diaz... those boys know what they're doing; they can throw their hands.
I've always been told that if you spar with another man, you try and emulate what a real fight is going to be like. So you go hard. It's how I've always been.
You can hit the bags, the pads, and you can run and do your fitness and your weights as much as you want, but if you don't spar you just don't have that true experience, that true knowledge of how to beat a man in one-on-one combat.
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.
I spar in the gym, and I take pride in my sparring. But I'm a better fighter when the lights come on because it's right now - there is no tomorrow.