Marvin Hagler famous quotes

03-23-2025

If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.
-- Marvin Hagler

#Cutting #Boxing #Gloves
Oh yeah, I mean 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.
-- Marvin Hagler

#Sports #Art #Mean
Whether Pacquiao loses in the first round, whether he knocks out Mayweather in the first round, it's still going to be the biggest fight in history,
-- Marvin Hagler

#Fighting #Firsts #Pacquiao
It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas
-- Marvin Hagler

#Sleep #Pajamas #Bed
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.
-- Marvin Hagler

#Sports #Media #Order
I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting but I try not to look like it
-- Marvin Hagler

#Fighting #Thinking #Trying
You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time.
-- Marvin Hagler

#Motivation #Fighting #Long
I like to see the smiles on people's faces when I show them I can do the impossible.
-- Marvin Hagler

#People #Faces #Impossible
Nothing can intimidate me. I just go out and destruct and destroy....
-- Marvin Hagler

#Intimidating
Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.
-- Marvin Hagler

#Heart #Fighting #Outcomes
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. If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.
-- Marvin Hagler

#Cutting #Boxing #Champion
Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.
-- Marvin Hagler

#Games #People #Fighter
The situation right after the fight wasn't too good; I believe I'm still the only champion in the world who never received the belt inside the ring once you've won the title. I held that against the English fans for a long time but I felt that also motivated me.
-- Marvin Hagler

#Believe #Fighting #Long
Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.
-- Marvin Hagler

#Country #Stupid #Hands
People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.
-- Marvin Hagler

#People #Champion #Important
In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.
-- Marvin Hagler

#Pain #Halloween #Fighting
It's hard to get up at 6am when you're wearing silk pyjamas.
-- Marvin Hagler

#Boxing
You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.
-- Marvin Hagler

#Fighting #Thinking #Careers
Don't doubt me, because that's when I get stronger....
-- Marvin Hagler

#Doubt #Stronger #Doubt Me
When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war....
-- Marvin Hagler

#War #Men #Going To War
The only difference between street fighting and boxing is there a ref there from stopping me from killing you
-- Marvin Hagler

#Fighting #Differences #Boxing

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