Top 50 Sparring Quotes

I get more relaxed. I get looser. I get more technical, I get faster, and you get to see way more of my game in the later rounds. In sparring, a lot of my best rounds are my third and my fourth. My fifth rounds are sometimes my best of all.

I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It’s not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners.

To be able to perform at a high level, to be able to do things that no other fighter can do, you have to practice it. And the only way you can practice is by sparring, by fighting another man.

I’m hungry, but I have a good team around me. Good coaches and good sparring partners.

There are two kinds of magic. If you think of it like martial arts, there’s sparring, where you are doing it with a partner, and the other is kata, where you’re doing an exposition for the audience.

Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I’ve stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you’re going to get caught, and you can’t afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you’re a writer.

I’m prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly – or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.

In U.S., there are lot of good fighters, female fighters. Lots of different sparring partners. So it’s good.

What I pull off in sparring I should be able to pull off in a fight.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you’re sparring or drilling techniques, you can’t think of anything else.

I have my coach, Urijah Faber. He’s watching me do everything pretty much all the time. I’m training or grappling or sparring live. He’s over there making adjustments. He’s really hands on, so that makes a big difference.

There’s a very big difference between being fit and being fight fit. Sparring is the only way to get fight fit. It’s a very important part of boxing and something that I do as regularly as possible.

I train for at least two hours, three times a day – weights, bench-press, push-ups, running, sparring, boxing sessions – so I must be burning off a lot of calories. But I don’t weigh myself too often – just once every day.

We always train with heavier sparring partners to make it harder so the fight will be easier.

I will never let another man disrespect me. I don’t care if we sparring or fighting.

I have showed things in sparring and camp that I don’t show in fights.

You try to make your sparring sessions as realistic as possible.

I’ve spent a lot of time encouraging, corralling, protecting, and sparring with creative people.

Sparring with southpaws have been different but nothing to worry me.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women – but he can think of them as he ought – as sisters, not as sparring partners.

I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator – a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.

When I first got into the sport it was all about who could cut the most weight, who could be the biggest on fight night. That’s the same era when you’re sparring 10 five minute rounds, new partner every two and a half minutes, that era of just really hard weight cutting and really hard full contact training.

When I get to go to the gym or go to the fight or sparring or training, it’s like a sanctuary.

You’re just taking punishment every day, getting hit all the time. That’s something we’re going to cut back on. I’ll train hard but the sparring will be cut in half.

As an amateur, I trained in some real hard schools of knocks. In Cuba, they would have judges on three sides of the ring just for sparring sessions. They train under exactly the same conditions as they fight, and it was a great experience.

One of the things I like most about Roufusport is, really, the culture. A lot of times, you’re training in fight camps and running and hitting mitts and sparring. Those things get old kind of quick. I like the fact that they allow fun into the room.

I am the world’s most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I’ve studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t’ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.

I ruptured my bicep tendon in a sparring session.

Sparring is probably the best cardio, but strength training is the best way to prevent the kind of injuries that come from roadwork and sparring.

The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices.

I’ve done a lot of rounds with Teofimo Lopez, sparring in Miami – so I know about him.

This is a full-contact sport. It’s the objective to disable your opponent, even if sparring or a real fight. You’ve got to use your technique.

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

As usual sparring goes: men represent strikes, touch each other, but do not tend to cause real damage to the partner.

I’m a very good coach… because I see the way the kids react once they get in the ring and start actually sparring. I see that they are calm, relaxed, and they’re working like we work in the gym, and they are doing what they’ve been taught.

For my training camp against George Groves my main sparring partner was a 6ft 7inch cruiserweight who fought nothing like George. It was just wrong. Wrong preparation. I was as fit as could be, but strategically I didn’t prepare right.

For me, it’s very hard to train too much, just sparring, sparring, sparring. It’s boring.

Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

What people have to realise is that it’s not the fights that are really hard; it is the training camps. It’s living away from home for 12 weeks. It’s sparring with guys who are told they will get £1,000 cash if they can drop me.

We risk our health much more during fights and sparring than by getting infected with coronavirus.

We’d always said boxers shouldn’t lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody’s gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.

Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That’s why they don’t have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they’re limiting movement.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

I’m more vicious in sparring when I am around 160 pounds or coming down from heavier than that.

I can be the nice family man at home, and then when I go to the gym, maybe sparring with someone, I switch into beast mode. It ain’t pretty.

Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn’t mean there’s any personal animosity.

Each time I’m training and sparring, I’m always pushing myself to submit my training partners.

I was sparring with Dan Christison, a big heavyweight. I threw a leg kick and broke my fibula. Before the Florian training camp.

When most people think of Tae Kwon Do – which, in the United States, is not all that often – they think of sparring, a form of competition that both men and women perform at the Olympics.

Sparring is not as tough as a fight.