QUOTES by Joe Calzaghe
Find most favourite and famour Authors from A.A Milne to Zoe Kravitz.
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.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
You ask all the super-middleweights: Who is the best fighter in Britain? If I came back, it would be me.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
I want to prove that I'm not just the best super middleweight in the world but the best pound-for-pound.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
There were times people tried to get me to change trainers, but I stuck with my dad.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
There is a world of difference between being a reality TV star and a world champion boxer.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
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.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
To win the four major title belts, to be the unbeaten champion and 10 years a champion - it's amazing. I'm so proud.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
When I go into the ring, I don't hate opponents, and I certainly don't want to hurt them.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
On a personal level, I probably wouldn't want my boys to box professionally. But I do encourage them to get into boxing training - they both go along. It keeps them fit.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
I am not an aggressive person. I am a disciplined, chilled, and relaxed guy.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
I've fought in Copenhagen before, and it's not the most hostile place in the world.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
When you've been at the top of the sport for so many years, it's your life, and it becomes very difficult just to quit boxing and find something else to be happy.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
The world title in a second weight division and a win in America is just the icing on the cake of my career.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
In America, they slag each other off at the press conference, then get in the ring and don't do anything.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
At 14, 15, everyone at school stopped talking to me, and I went completely into my shell. Basically, I'd be hiding. I had no friends. I hated it.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
After a weigh-in, you drink and put on the pounds. But it's just fluid, not muscle, so you get in the ring and feel flat.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
Being retired is one thing, but staying retired is another. Even when I announced my retirement, I'm sure people thought I was going to come back.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
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.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
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.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
Enzo, my dad, supports Juventus, so that's my team and, obviously, Italy, who I've been fortunate enough to see win two World Cups.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
I'm actually thinking about acting lessons. If somebody says to me, 'You can be in the movies,' I'd be pretty happy.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
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.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
My dad is a great judge of fights. He's the only person I know who said that Holyfield would beat Tyson the first time.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
I've been through the routine so many times that I genuinely don't even think about a big fight very much beforehand.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
I'm a regular guy, got the same friends. I live in the same area of south Wales. That's who I am. I'm just a normal guy. I just fight.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
Boxing's a very lonely sport. That ring is the loneliest place in the world.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
I've beaten all contenders for 11 years. I'm not a robot; I'm fed up. My body's tired of it. I'm 36.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
I believe amateur boxing training should be available in schools. Not for all, but for those who want to.
Quote by -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.
Quote by -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.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
Test match cricket - it's the most boring thing to watch. How they call themselves sportsmen I'll never know.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
My first boxing memory is watching Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard on television.
Quote by -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.
Quote by -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.
Quote by -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.
Quote by -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.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe
I'm close to achieving something that very few boxers ever have - and that is to retire undefeated, like Rocky Marciano.
Quote by -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.
Quote by -Joe Calzaghe