Top 66 Amir Khan Quotes

I always said as an amateur that I’d want to one day fight and beat Kindelan because he was the best out there.

The Prescott fight made me change from a boy to a man: it took me out of my comfort zone because when you lose a fight, you look at the mistakes and everything. That is what happened. I’ve changed from a boy to a man.

Whose mother wants to see her son fight? It’s very hard for her – but boxing is in my blood.

I love takeaways. I have at least one or two every day. Burgers, chips, curries, doner kebabs, all sorts.

King chiller. That was me.

If I hadn’t gone towards boxing, I might have been one of those kids getting into trouble. A lot of my friends did. They were clever kids at school, but they just went down the wrong path.

As an amateur, we used to fight people from the same gym. You’d spar with each other and then fight each other in championships.

I look out there, and I see that Floyd Mayweather stands head and shoulders above everyone else. He’s another fighter I would like to base myself on because he’s got incredible fast hands and feet. He’s flashy but, man, is he good.

There are a lot of fighters with no family support, but your family are honest with you. Look at the types who were around Mike Tyson. They are not going to tell you when you are wrong; they’ll just call you the champ.

I’ve always been a UFC fan, and I like McGregor and the way he promotes it.

I can only say that sometimes skin colour does make a difference.

Even though you think boxing is a contact sport, it teaches you not to fight on the street, to behave. It gives you discipline and self-control.

The boxing world can be a very lonely one, and I’m so grateful every day to have Dad and my whole family watching my back. It would be unthinkable if I didn’t have their support.

You need to have a very strong relationship with your coaches. For me, Freddie Roach is like a father figure.

Boxing’s not going to retire me; I’ll retire from boxing. That’s where most people make mistakes. They normally stay in the game a bit too long.

Floyd Mayweather has fought the biggest names throughout his career and has earned the right to face whoever he chooses.

I think I’m one of the hardest-training fighters in the world.

I want people talking about me as a great fighter – from being a prospect with the big pressure as soon as I turned professional, then going on to win the world title.

If I spend silly, it’s going to look bad, in a way, because I do all this charity work as well.

I have a stake in a company called Super Fight League, which is an MMA company in India, and we have a lot of shows in Dubai, too.

I’m confident I can take the gold in Beijing.

If I get a bit big-headed, I get a good clip round the ear from my family and friends. I’m still the same person.

I used to eat what I want, on a junk diet, and used to think I could make my weight easy and kill myself over the last four or five days.

I’ve always known that to have anything, you’ve got to work hard at it.

I used to have Lamborghinis, Ferraris parked up outside the house – just parked there with no one driving them! Now I’m much wiser, and I only have one car that I drive. What’s the point of having three cars just parked up when you don’t need them?

Straight after the Prescott fight, people were saying, ‘He’s finished. He’s not going to come back.’ There were only racial remarks made. But, you know what, it made me stronger. It made me come back even stronger. It made me a better fighter.

I’m very experienced in four-round fights because of my amateur career, and I’ve got a high work rate.

I’m proud to be British.

You always want to fight the best.

All the bad press I was getting puts you on a downer, so really, you come to a stage where you start hating yourself, in a way, because you’re not in control.

When you drop weight, the closer you come to the fight, the more your muscles tighten up.

In America, they treat me like God.

I don’t want to get punched all my life.

Some watches I bought, I think now, ‘Why the hell did I pay that much for a watch?’

I’ve been working a lot on my lateral movement, and angles – it’s coming natural to me now – and on different techniques, keeping my hands right.

I know for a fact if I were a white English fighter, maybe I would have been a superstar in Britain – and the world.

Boxing changed my life twice.

Religion was very influential because when it got really bad, and you don’t know who to turn to, but I turned to God and was praying and meditating, that really helped.

I was very hyperactive when I was a kid, just misbehaving at school like most kids, and I would probably be 10 times worse at home.

We’re prizefighters. That’s what we become. Boxing has one of the biggest purses in sport. And in the sporting field, we probably make the most money.

That’s boxing – one punch can win a fight.

Boxing’s a business, and I’ve got a great team around me who have been looking after me in that sense.

The thing is, I’m never scared. It’s just in the blood, really. My family come from a warrior clan background, the Rajput tribe from the Punjab, and that could be one of the reasons. Going into fights just seems normal to me.

My sport will always be important to me.

I love the British public and the British fans; they are true boxing fans. If you get them on your side, you can go right to the end and achieve anything in life.

I know people didn’t think I’d become a world champion – even people probably in my own camp, my own team, didn’t think I’d become a world champion this quickly.

You’re always just one punch away from getting hurt. But look, if it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen. I think I’m going to walk out of this sport of boxing when I think it’s the right time.

People forget that boxing is the art of self-defence – ideally, hit and not be hit – and maybe we should all think about that a bit more.

I have been very lucky with what I have achieved.

I’m an orthodox fighter, relaxed, fast, and powerful. And I’ve got good footwork.

Mayweather waits for you to make a mistake. He plays a similar game to me.

It’s dangerous to talk too much about future fights.

With me being a sportsman and being an icon who people know, if I can even send a little message across which will maybe help a lot of people, I’m going to do that.

I think it is very important to keep the kids off the street and out of trouble.

One thing for sure is that I am not going to attempt to knock Barrera out. My boxing ability and my speed are the attributes that will get me the win.

Organic food is the best for you, and I’m eating the best, a lot of fresh vegetables. I also keep myself hydrated. It’s all made a big difference to my performance in the gym.

I understand why my mum and my wife can’t bear to watch me fight. There’s a lot of blood, a lot of pain.

I want a super-fight with a massive name, and I’d love it in a stadium.

I want to retire from boxing by the time I am 25 or 26 and be a legend by that age.

Of course I will turn professional at some stage. Then I want to be a world champion and finish up a legend and be out of the sport by the time I am 27.

People come into fights against me and say this and that, but when they realise how quick and how hard I hit, their game plan disappears.

I came back from the Olympic Games, and straightaway, I’m this role model. So that means I can’t mess around with my mates like I used to because, if I do, people are going to use it to knock me down.

I looked up to cricket players such as Imran Khan.

People always want to see that, the young lion going to take the old lion out.

If I get the fight against Mayweather, I have no doubt I can go and take it.

I eat a lot of takeaways.