Top 50 Carl Froch Quotes

Your fitness is your ability to recover and you can’t recover when you’re old.

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.

The general public don’t like boxers. They prefer tennis players.

I’ve been in the ring. I’ve fought in a title fight. I know what it is like to lose a fight. I know everything a fighter has been through.

I’m quite a ruthless, cold-hearted bastard. I always have been.

I’ve even fought with a broken hand, against Brian Magee.

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.

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.

I would have loved to have fought 15-rounders, because I always come on strong at the end.

There’s weaknesses in every fighter.

You manage your injuries if you’re serious about fighting.

I’ve been through the highs and lows. I know what it’s like to taste defeat and it’s not nice.

Many top professional sportsmen from different sports see a psychologist.

The Earth is flat, 100 per cent.

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 always wanted my job to be something I that loved doing.

There is an age limit of 35 on amateur boxing. They should consider putting an age limit on professional boxing.

I don’t talk for the sake of talking and I don’t talk with a forked tongue.

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.

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.

I was 5ft 3in tall until I was 17. Then I suddenly shot up.

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.

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.

As tired as I am, I can always go another round, and I feel the other guy can’t.

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.

Audley Harrison is quite a soft, gentle guy. He gives it all the talk but, when he’s in the ring, you can see he’s scared to death.

I’ve always been into sport, I watch all sport – I love golf, tennis, football and to me to box and have people in the arena cheering me on, I’ll always miss that.

When I won the title against Jean Pascal it also won me fight of the year.

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.

I don’t feel any remorse or guilt after a fight. I can sympathise with an opponent who is getting a beating, but if it is the choice between him and me, it’s not gonna be me.

I always like to get that finishing blow and satisfy the crowd.

I don’t think there is anything more proud or glorious than standing in the arena as a fighter – that you’ve done it in on your own. That’s why I love fighting.

I don’t tell lies. I don’t need to.

I’d love to box in Las Vegas – it’s the fight capital in the world.

I absolutely love boxing. I live and breathe it.

The only person in the world who could knock me out is my anaesthetist.

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.

Your body releases a natural endorphin when you’re fighting. You don’t feel pain.

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.

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.

You don’t want to be going into any fight thinking you’ve got to get a knockout, or force a stoppage, because it takes you out of your gameplan.

I’m a fighter.

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.

The only thing I miss is the actual fight night and the feeling of winning. I can say this with my hand on my heart, there is no greater feeling than standing victorious in the ring or in the case of my last fight, a stadium.

You are never going to top boxing at Wembley stadium.

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.

There’s no proof of the Earth’s curvature and this fake space agency Nasa use CGI images and every one is different.

I’m involved in fight of the year nearly every time I fight because I put it all on the line. I don’t look to keep out of the way and nick a decision.

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.

It’s not too late actually to speak to somebody about psychology, it’s never too late.