Top 60 Shannon Briggs Quotes

Sometimes, I think to myself, ‘Damn, I don’t speak as well as I used to.’

After the Klitschko fight they left me for dead in the hospital. It was just my wife and me – we were alone and had no money.

Two guys who don’t like each other is a great fight.

I was an only child, a hard-case kid, in a rough neighborhood. But I always fought my battles.

There were times when I was tempted to do wrong, and could have went that way. But I knew it wasn’t for me. I was told enough times that it catches up with you, and I believe it.

I want the world to know me. I want to go down in history.

I want everyone to recognize and know me. I don’t want bodyguards. I want to be able to go out into the masses.

We all know what this business can do to you… you end up walking on your heels.

Depression is not a choice.

I am from the ghetto.

It wasn’t until the birth of my daughter that I realised I had to get it together. I had my second chance in life to do what I’m doing, which is inspire people to not give up.

Brownsville breeds the best fighters in the world. What other neighborhood has produced so many champions?

I was lucky. I had boxing as an out.

I love London, it’s a great place to be.

I’m a dreamer.

I missed a lot of school. I was always sick. I was in the hospital a lot. Asthma kicked my butt.

Why would I stand there and trade punches and try to knock out George Foreman?

Anybody in Britain, the big fights. I’m here for the big fights. I don’t care about the little fights any more.

Let’s go, champ’ started as a way to motivate myself.

I got caught up in the whole celebrity thing, lost control at times.

I respect Haye as a man and for being a former two-weight world champion. But not as a boxer.

I want the best. I’ve always fought the best.

Underachiever. Asthmatic. Excuse-maker and fistic faker. My opponents and some other haters have called me all of those things.

I myself had a rough life and it’s been a struggle but I believe my gift is the ability to connect with everyone.

The heavyweight boxing needs Shannon Briggs and boxing needs Shannon Briggs.

I was 18-years-old hanging out with Mickey Rourke and Johnny Depp at Mickey’s club Risk.

It was rough growing up but it was best for me, it’s what made Shannon Briggs, it’s who I am.

When Haye runs into my right hand, he’ll know.

In a way, I’m fighting because of my mom. She wanted me to find something in my life.

I’ve been through a lot of ups and downs. But in the process, I won two heavyweight titles. Not many men can say that.

I hurt hard and I love hard.

I’m the people’s champion.

My weight blew up to 400 lbs and I couldn’t bend down to tie my own shoelaces.

I’m superstitious about my hair. I don’t like to cut it before big fights.

I have always tried to market myself.

A doctor prescribed testosterone for depression and it truly helped me.

It’s a hard sport. You don’t come from a rich family wanting to be a boxer. Rich kids get hit in the face, they go home. Poor kids come back. They see boxing as a way out.

No guy with a Ph.D. is going to beat me.

I’ve learned patience.

The goal is to be heavyweight champion of the world.

Brownsville girls are known for being quick-tempered.

Phenomenal boxing fans, I’ve never seen anything like it, everywhere I go people screaming ‘let’s go champ’ it’s just amazing; kids, elderly people, when it comes to boxing you can’t beat Great Britain.

My mom was a nurse at Rikers Island and she cried to me about not going the wrong route.

I want to be famous.

You have to bully a guy like Fury – notice I don’t call him ‘Tyson.’ Truthfully you have to run up on a big guy like Fury and pummel him. He’s the type of guy who’s strong and determined but he’s slow. His awkwardness is his positive.

In memory of Muhammad Ali I will be knocking out David Haye in one round.

I had a mother who gave me everything.

This is a big game, and there are a lot of haters in the game. But don’t hate me, hate the game.

I was able to battle back through depression.

I’m the only black man you ever met who couldn’t dribble a basketball.

All different religions have laws based on fear, the fear of going to hell.

I feel like winning the title was a curse. It was something that I always wanted to achieve. I got it, but it didn’t turn out the way I thought. The business side of it has not been very good.

I am made in Brooklyn, U.S.A. and I am definitely in the heavyweight-title house.

Going to the Olympics would have been great.

My mother taught me right and wrong, and the right is the only way to go.

I basically built myself up and I’m not about to let somebody else tear me down.

It took me years on top of years to grow thick skin and it took me many hurtful days.

I never said I was a Tyson, Bowe or Ali. I said I’m Shannon Briggs, the latest, not the ‘greatest.’

If the money is right, I will fight a bear.

My mother died on my birthday.