Amir Khan Quotes

Amir Khan

Profession : Athlete

Birth : December 8, 1986

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

Amir Khan

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.

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I grew up in a loving household.

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

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It's got difficult for me to walk down the street without people stopping me to ask for an autograph or to talk to me about boxing.

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You have to be confident when you've got someone in front of you who wants to beat you and take the title from you. But I think people mistake my confidence for arrogance or cockiness.

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It's just such an addictive sport. Only now I can understand why ex-fighters come back. That addiction helps me set new goals and targets.

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My main priorities were to fight for Britain. Not a lot of Asians get selected for this country at anything, and it's a great achievement.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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In America, they treat me like God.

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

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

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