Joe Calzaghe Quotes

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Joe Calzaghe

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 23, 1972

Having been a fighter for 25 years, I know how to handle the fear. The fear is there, but I use it to motivate me.

Joe Calzaghe

We're only human, and fear can eat away at you the closer you get to a big fight.

Joe Calzaghe

I never really, really pushed my boys into boxing, but I guess it's in the blood.

Joe Calzaghe

Before the Roy Jones fight, I knew I was going to retire because I couldn't train, my hands had gone, and the hunger had gone.

Joe Calzaghe

If you know you're just fighting for the money and you're not fighting for the championship, you're going to lose, so I thought, 'It's time for me to quit.'

Joe Calzaghe

Promoting is a no-no - that's hard work. Training is a full-time job, but I don't have time to do that full-time. But managing is something I'll be good at.

Joe Calzaghe

I'm close to achieving something that very few boxers ever have - and that is to retire undefeated, like Rocky Marciano.

Joe Calzaghe

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

When I was 14, I told my careers adviser that I was going to be a world champion boxer. Of course she laughed.

Joe Calzaghe

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

I'm a boxer, and every fight could be my last. You just have to remember Michael Watson to know what boxing can do to you.

Joe Calzaghe

I like him as a guy, but I'm going to knock him out - Roy Jones is just a prop in a fairytale ending to a great career for me.

Joe Calzaghe

You have to try things in life.

Joe Calzaghe

My first boxing memory is watching Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard on television.

Joe Calzaghe

Test match cricket - it's the most boring thing to watch. How they call themselves sportsmen I'll never know.

Joe Calzaghe

There's no point looking good and losing. Winning is what it's all about, and you can't always look spectacular while doing it.

Joe Calzaghe

I cried watching 'Million Dollar Baby.' I'm a big baby, man.

Joe Calzaghe

I prayed before fights. Especially just before I got in to the ring. But I'd also have my iPod on, Prodigy and Linkin Park ripping through my ears.

Joe Calzaghe

I agreed to be on 'Strictly Come Dancing' without watching the show. I got talked into it by my manager. And my God, I was crap at it.

Joe Calzaghe

You can never say never in this game, but I can't see myself boxing again. There's loads of things I want to do.

Joe Calzaghe