You get better as the rounds go on.
People are starting to see that now and I’ve learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights.
I kind of got my big break with ‘The Princess Diaries’ and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: ‘Did you always want to be a princess growing up?’ And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.
When you lose badly, when you get knocked out and the ref has to stop it, that’s when you know it’s been a bad fight. But when you lose a fight having over the 12 rounds and you don’t look like you’ve done any rounds, that’s when you know it’s quite good.
Chris Byrd is a good fighter, but I put him to sleep in five, seven rounds.
When I put on a performance I always work so hard, so I have conditioning for 10, 15 rounds.
We live in a crazily youth-orientated world nowadays. It’s a trickle-down thing. We see pictures of lithe, attractive celebrity couples such as Brad and Angelina or the Beckhams cavorting around, covered in tattoos, stomachs as flat as the singing in early ‘X Factor’ rounds.
A fool can never be made to question his own wisdom. And George Groves is very foolish. He believes his own nonsense. He cannot stay with me for 12 rounds. He’s not tough enough.
You can say what you want about the Stephen Thompson fight, but you cannot disregard that me and Stephen went five rounds in a technical fight. Apparently, he’s one of the best strikers in the UFC, Stephen Thompson.
You look at my fight with Holloway, I don’t even tell my corner I broke my hand and I broke my jaw and I fought three rounds. That’s just what I do, in my mind I’m thinking I can still win this, I can still win this. That’s your thing is to never give up.
With boxing, sometimes you’ll watch the first three rounds, then you’ll change the channel and turn it back in the 10th round. With MMA, you have to watch all 15 minutes. You’ll want to watch every second.
It’s often my opponent’s plan to take me into the later rounds, but the amount of damage that has accumulated on them means they don’t hear the final bell.
It’s ridiculous having the pros in an amateur sport, but at the same time, there’s a lot of pros who are going to struggle over three rounds.
I’ve mixed sparring partners up. I’ve done tons upon tons of rounds with big, heavy lumps who are trying to take my head off.
All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.
Talent and skill goes out the window after eight or nine rounds.
While I accept that large investment rounds will always garner headlines, it’s almost as if the magic number of how much cash you’ve managed to raise has become both a stamp of approval and the main metric for gauging a business’s true worth.
Everyone doubted I could go 10 rounds because my fights have stopped early. But I knew I could because of the work I’d done in the gym.
A lot of time I fight guys and after a few rounds, they accept my dominance. They aren’t fighting to win anymore. They’re fighting to not lose. I’ve seen it many times. It’s very hard for me to finish a guy like this. He doesn’t want to get hurt. It’s normal. It’s human nature.
First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn’t a cartoon series there isn’t any cartoon series. I mean there’s no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.
When it’s a judge’s decision, you never know. You can win five rounds and still lose a judge’s decision.
If I get on the golf course, my basketball game is a direct reflection of how many rounds of golf I can get. So, the more rounds of golf, the better I play.
I’ve trained hundreds of hundreds of rounds of sparring at American Top Team.
My goal is always to qualify, maybe get a couple rounds in, but now I’ve beaten a couple top players.
It’s not just about knockouts, son. This is mixed martial arts. It’s about finishing people. It’s about putting in that time, putting in all five rounds.
In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.
I’m persistent. In the early ’60s, when I first started making the rounds in New York for theater work, I became more and more enraged every time I had an interview or audition that went nowhere, and became more determined. I haven’t lost that.
People want to see blood. They don’t care anymore if you can box for 12 rounds. They don’t appreciate the art of the good boxer.
In boxing and politics, you cannot predict results. You should be ready to go 12 rounds. But if you win in the first round, you should be ready to be the winner quickly.
Michael Bisping, we had a five round battle. I beat him for five rounds and tripled the amount of strikes landed. I landed more take-downs in that fight than had been landed on him in his entire career.
For many writers, the endless performance of being a writer – tweeting, appearing, making the rounds – is required simply to attract enough attention to make a living.
A random rumor that did a rounds about me was that I am an actor who throws tantrums on the sets and likes to be treated like a King. Which is false.
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