Top 60 Chris Eubank Jr. Quotes

I learned a lot from my father.

So many fighters who fight Golovkin have lost before they’ve entered the ring.

I don’t fear no man. I’ve had everything done to me.

If you’re throwing punches or exerting energy but you’re not breathing, you’re holding your breath. That actually saps your strength, it saps your stamina.

I have fought fighters in the past who I don’t like as people, but you have to block out any type of dislike or hate. Whatever he’s done, whatever he’s said, you can’t be thinking about that. You just have to see him as a man that you have to outpoint, outgame, and beat on the night.

There is a lot of pressure because of what my father achieved and everyone is expecting so much, but that gives me that extra drive in the gym every day to graft hard.

If you’re fighting for any other reason than wanting to be the best in the sport, then you’re not going to make it.

After a two-hour session in the gym, you can’t then go out and be up for looking for trouble, you just want to eat and sleep.

I started to understand how important it was for me to make my own name pretty early on after years of noticing people treating me a certain way because of who my dad was. Some people wanted to be friends, others wanted to test me because I was Chris Eubank’s son – inside schools, outside of school, on the streets.

I have seen the consequences of what can happen in boxing.

It’s the referee’s job to stop the fight. I’m in there to win, defend myself, and further my career.

This is boxing. As fighters we know the risks, we know we are risking our health everytime you step into the ring, but it’s a risk we are willing to take because we know with those risks come great reward.

Obviously, in the buildup to some fights, there’s animosity and testosterone and banter. But at the end of the day, we all understand that this is a business, just two men who are trying to further their careers and provide for their families.

People who don’t understand fighting think you need to hate somebody to beat them. But I keep hate and anger out of boxing, because it causes mistakes.

From a young age, I was told boxing was not a career option. My dad told me there were other ways to make a living in sport without taking punches to the head. But eventually, curiosity got the better of me. I needed to find out what the big deal was.

Any fighter who is serious about boxing wants to be in those big fights, fighting the best fighters, with the whole country watching and talking about it.

Some people call me arrogant and boo me but I love it, because at least they’re buying tickets. Meanwhile, other people are thinking, ‘wow, this guy’s different, I’ll come and see him again.’

I’ve been working a lot on my jab.

The corner is there to help you clean your cuts up and put your Vaseline on, not to throw in the towel.

You learn from every bout.

Once I realised what boxing was, I understood – this is the ultimate form of competition. Once you box you go back to the football field or rugby and it just doesn’t have the same spice.

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.

No man can honestly sit there and say he doesn’t care about what people think, doesn’t care if he’s got the support of the British public or British fans.

Boxing is an entertainment business.

I’ve had the hardest upbringing of any fighter in England.

In the ring I’m a different animal.

My father is my inspiration.

Predominantly training myself for so long worked, I had great success. But if I had someone there training me day-in day-out from an early age? It could have been a whole different story.

Having the Eubank name in England brings lots of pressure.

When you are fighting a man who is over a stone heavier than you, you feel it. You feel it in the punches and in the clinches.

I don’t see a holiday as a time to break from boxing – it never stops.

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.

Not having a trainer is basically just giving an edge to my opponent, and I’m not willing to do that anymore.

I’ve got royal blood coursing through my veins and if the boxing bug is ‘something I’ve inherited through the family bloodline, I’m proud of my genes.

Golovkin is the No 1 name on my list. People put this guy’s name so high. But I know I can beat him. I know that I have the tools and the style to take this guy out.

I want to be able to prove I can become the same or better than my father.

I look up to my father, he’s done what he’s done, and I want to emulate his achievements and become as successful as he was. But I have to prove myself to the boxing community and to myself – that’s the most important thing.

Some people say I’m arrogant or cocky but I’m a down to earth, decent guy.

I won’t look back and say ‘I wish I could change things.’

When I’m fighting it’s just search and destroy.

I would like people to help me support the Chain of Hope which is a charity that is close to my heart who offer life save operations for children in need.

Anyone with a belt in my weight division I want to fight.

I don’t like to give predictions but I am the type of fighter who tries to stop his man every time, and that’s why I’m such a fan favourite. People know I do the business.

Froch is like a train who just comes forward but Groves will move about, fake and feign and his good footwork is a big part of his game.

I’m going to take whatever route I can take to win a world title.

I learned very early on once I started boxing as a kid that if you go into the ring emotionally charged you make mistakes. It’s a mental game, it’s a chess match, you’ve got to think, you’ve got to strategise and make tactical decisions.

Outside boxing, I did well in cross country competitions and I won a schoolboys’ doubles badminton tournament at once. I was pleased because it was a hobby to me.

That’s the ultimate goal for any fighter, to fight in those big casinos, on that strip in Las Vegas, Madison Square Garden, New York – all those iconic venues.

The win over DeGale felt satisfying for several reasons as it proved what I’ve known all along.

I’m around my father all of the time, so the things that people see as distracting are things I’ve seen for years on a daily basis. It’s second nature to me.

If the going gets tough, you stay in there and take your beating like a man. That’s what we sign up for, and that’s all I meant when I said my corner don’t throw in towels.

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.

Just because you are getting hurt doesn’t mean you can’t come back and win.

This is no ordinary nine to five day job and I have a 24/7 in terms of my boxing and my career as a professional sportsman.

What I learned from my father is that to win is number one, but you’ve also got to have a flavour.

I was nervous my first fight, my heart was pumping at 1,000 beats per second.

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.

No man is unbeatable.

I’m fighting because I want to be the best and I want to beat the best and I want to make a name for myself. I’m not fighting because I want to live comfortably for the rest of my life.

I want the hardest, toughest challenges out there for me.