Quotes by Joe Calzaghe - Page 3

I was told as a teenager I'd never box again. I had a really bad wrist injury; I couldn't even shadow box for six months. I went through surgery just to try and manage it.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Manage
Shadow
Six
Surgery
Box
Wrist
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You think that after becoming world champion, you're going to be a massive superstar with lots of lucrative bouts against great fighters, but that never materialised for me.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Massive
Superstar
Fighters
Great Champion World
Lucrative
World Champion
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I swore to myself that I was never going to lose again, and that's what drives me still. More than money, more than titles, more than fame, it's the desire not to be defeated.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Defeated
Titles
Money Myself Me
Drives
Swore
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I'm somebody from a little tiny town, who had boxed in leisure centres, and my last fight was in Madison Square Garden against one of the greats. What a great way to finish off.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Garden
Leisure
Madison
Tiny
Boxed
Great Way
Square
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It's not my place to say how good I was because the thing is, every champion from every era is a great fighter and it's up to one person's interpretation to who is actually the best.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Champion
Eras
Motivation
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I've been eight years with this beautiful little thing and I've got a partner for him now. After eight years of trying to unify the titles, it's going to be pretty hard to give this up.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Beautiful
Eight
Motivation
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When it comes to the singing part, I think I missed the boat - the whole family can sing except for me. But they can't fight, so I suppose I've been a bit more successful than them there.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Boat
Family Fight Me
Missed
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When you know yourself that you've come through preparation injury free and you've done everything, you've done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Done
Motivation
Preparation
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It's unbelievable when I think back to when I was a kid that one day I would have achieved so much through boxing, and to think my teachers laughed at me when I said I was going to be a boxer.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Laughed
Unbelievable
Achieved
Me Day Back
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I'm not going to lie: you do get down sometimes, but I wouldn't say I was ever depressed; that's too hard a word. But you do become bored, because all you've done in your life is fight and box.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Bored
Depressed
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I definitely was a big puncher early on in my career, and I used to load up with my left hand. Then, towards the end of my career, I had hand problems and needed injections in my hands for the pain.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Load
Injections
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I like to give my kids the life I didn't have - they go to an excellent school; they have nice clothes, money for shopping. I'm quite generous with them, but they have fantastic manners - they're not spoilt.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Excellent
Generous
Manners
Shopping
Spoilt
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I'm pretty excited: to be inducted into the Hall of Fame is a massive achievement... and to be inducted with Oscar de la Hoya and Felix Trinidad, two great fighters, is a massive honour for me and my family.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Achievement
Honour
Massive
Family Great Me
Fighters
Hall
La
Oscar
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I feel blessed that I managed to fight 46 fights undefeated, that I was a world champion for 11 years, one of the longest reigning champions of all time and I like to think that I come out looking pretty good.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Blessed
Fighting
Motivation
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He's gonna try and stand back, mess me about a bit, be cagey and hold on the inside and make it one of them fights that are boring. I don't wanna make a boring fight. I don't like to be involved in boring fights!
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Fighting
Motivation
Trying
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Two big punchers, you've got to keep your chin down, keep your defense up, don't be careless or open, box sensibly, control the centre of the ring and when he lets his punches go, believe me he's gonna know all about it.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Believe
Motivation
Two
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My career has been very difficult. People respect the fact that I haven't just turned professional like Amir Khan or Audley Harrison, and it's been, 'Here's a million pound' - for spoilt brats to fight a couple of fights.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Spoilt
Difficult People
Pound
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[Tyson] Fury is big and [Wladimir] Klitschko's not used to fighting someone his size. If Fury can stop Klitschko grabbing and avoid that big right hand, he's got a chance. In the heavyweight division, it only takes one punch.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Fighting
Hands
Heavyweights
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Beating Chris Eubank in 1997 was a great win and the toughest fight of my life, and beating Jeff Lacy was great, too. But Mikkel Kessler topped it, winning all the belts and fighting in front of all those fans in my home town.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Belts
Home Town
Life Home Great
Beating
Chris
Jeff
Topped
Toughest
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We had nothing, no money, when I was young. We lived in a council house. My dad struggled; my mum struggled. But that made me what I am. If I had everything on a plate from the start, maybe I would not have been a champion for 11 years.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Champion
Council
Mum
Struggled
Plate
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I think we have a normal father-and-son relationship. But like any other relationship, we have our differences. But we always seem to work out our differences. Believe it or not, our personalities are similar. We're both fiery and passionate.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Differences
Fiery
Work Relationship Believe
Personalities
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Why am I not a household name in Britain? Why have I not got the recognition I deserve after so long? I think the fact that none of my fights are seen on terrestrial television is significant but, other than that, I don't exactly know. I really don't.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Recognition
Significant
Household Name
Terrestrial
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At the end of your career, you go, 'I'm gonna be able to retire undefeated and be one of the very, very few people in history to do it.' People were saying I should try and get to 50-0, but my number was 46 - that was it. I could have kept trying, but one loss would have spoiled everything.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
History
Able
Loss
Spoiled
Undefeated
Career
Retire
Number
Few
Few People
Saying
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It's not just a trainer - as a man, my dad was unbelievable. Even outside boxing, he was my friend as well. We were boxer and trainer in the gym, but as soon as that bell goes, we'd have a cup of tea, and we'd go on about normal life. We would just leave that bit behind. That's how we kept going.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Normal Life
Unbelievable
Life Dad Man
Bell
Cup
My Friend
Trainer
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I can't understand it myself - how nervous I was when I took the floor for 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I walk out with 50,000 people gathered in the Millennium Stadium to fight Mikkel Kessler in the unification fight for the super middleweight division in 2007, and I feel great... and here I am, wearing tight pants and Cuban heels, and freaking out.
Joe Calzaghe / Professional Boxer
Cuban
Division
Heels
Millennium
Nervous
Pants
Unification
Floor
Gathered
Wearing
Strictly
Stadium
Super
Tight
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