Marvin Hagler Quotes

Fighting Quotes

” It’s tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5am when you’ve been sleeping in silk pajamas”

” Nothing can intimidate me. I just go out and destruct and destroy.”

“If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That’s all I am. I live it.”

” When a man goes into the ring, he’s going to war.”

” The likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns were true champions. There were some incredible fights between us, and I was happy to give them all an opportunity to fight me.”

” When you knock people out, it’s sometimes a very scary situation – but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it’s funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, ‘I wouldn’t fight that guy.”

” I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting but I try not to look like it”

” The only difference between street fighting and boxing is there a ref there from stopping me from killing you”

Marvin Hagler referred to his training camps as ‘self-imposed prisons’

Motivation Quotes

” A champion shows who he is by what he does when he’s tested. When a person gets up and says ‘I can still do it’, he’s a champion.”

” I like to see the smiles on people’s faces when I show them I can do the impossible.”

” Don’t doubt me, because that’s when I get stronger.”

” Every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you’re paying attention and studying your art.”

” There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.”

“People still look at me as the champion and that’s very important to me.”