Kell Brook Quotes

Once I’ve got my legs under me and I’m fit and healthy, I’m a hard, hard man to beat.

I’m a born and bred Sheffield man and I just want the city to do well with sport.

If I lose to DeLuca I will announce my retirement in the ring after.

Pressure makes me perform better.

I’m a world champion, I’ve beaten everyone I’ve been in with and I want to test myself.

I’m actually a mummy’s boy.

I like to have a good cry at a sad film.

I could do welterweight. For the right fight, I’ll do welterweight. It would have to be a meaningful fight. A world title fight, or a big meaningful fight.

Boxers put themselves on the line, they put their lives at risk, so it’s up to the boxers to make sure they are healthy and sharp because we are giving the public what they want to see.

I’ve had X-rays on both eyes, the bone has grown back and I have plates over each one, so I’m like a Terminator now and ready to walk through walls.

I have had some dark times, it was a frustrating 2019. I was pushing for the Terence Crawford fight but, through no fault of my own, I did not get any of the big fights I wanted.

I’m after people that want to fight, who are the real people. The real fighting men, that’s what I want to deal with.

I’d like a big fight in America, it would cap off my career in a great way.

Dominic Ingle has seen me probably from 9 years old coming through. He was watching from the outside.

It’s a beautiful sport, boxing, when you’re winning and everything is going well but when you hit the lows it really upsets you.

You need to be a complete fighter – the heart, the chin, the toughness. You’ve got to have it all.

Rabchenko is a dangerous guy, he’s no mug and he can really bang.

Listen, people that know me, know I’ve got a lion heart.

Two-time world champion – that’s my goal.

I want to go down, like my hero Sugar Ray Robinson, in history.

I love motocross and would love to have a go but I can’t go anywhere near them in case I got injured.

Losing in my home town of Sheffield, it upset me really badly.

Liam Smith hasn’t got a belt, but I can get excited about that fight. If they pay me seven figures for the fight, I’ll take that fight.

The toughest time was lying in a Tenerife hospital with no-one speaking English, next to a window with the sun beating down and my leg tied up, thinking I would never box again or even walk again. It took every bit of shine off winning the world title.

But I am a big welterweight so I can see why people think that I would look to move up the weights.

I can’t really explain how high the feeling was winning that world title in California with my family watching me.

I want to make a serious legacy.

It’s a short-lived career and I think I am in my prime now. I’m 34-0 and I want to go to 35-0 in spectacular fashion, and then the world is my oyster.

People are right to question what I’ve got left and how I am going to be after the injuries and defeats.

I’m scared of heights, but for my 30th birthday I’m going to try and get someone to kick me out of a plane and do a parachute jump.

I haven’t got years and years left so I want to compete against the best.

Since I was 9 years old, I’ve been training to be a champion.

I’m more vicious in sparring when I am around 160 pounds or coming down from heavier than that.

There’s a lot of politics in boxing and it’s destroying the game.

I know I’ve cut corners in every single fight I’ve had because I’ve used my ability to get through.

I will fight anyone, what the fans want, where the money is.

I got a bit down, depressed and fat, but I needed to be out of the game to realise I need boxing.

When I was drinking I was thinking I was having a good time but it came back twice as bad, the depression. It was just a vicious circle – drinking, not caring about myself – and it gave me a bad low.

Why would I fear Golovkin when I have stared death in the face?

When you are the champion, you are there to be shot at. It doesn’t bother me what people say.