Billy Joe Saunders quotes

“Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.”
-- Billy Joe Saunders

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“My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.”
-- Billy Joe Saunders

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“It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall.”
-- Billy Joe Saunders

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“The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.”
-- Billy Joe Saunders

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“But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.”
-- Billy Joe Saunders

Source : "Top of the bill: Billy Joe Saunders insists he's ready to rock the Royal Albert Hall" by David Anderson, www.mirror.co.uk. April 25, 2012.

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“You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.”
-- Billy Joe Saunders

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“There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.”
-- Billy Joe Saunders

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“I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.”
-- Billy Joe Saunders

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“Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?”

“Alright, remember, alcohol equals puke equals smelly mess equals nobody likes you.”

“It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.”

“When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.”

“See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.”

“I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.”

“You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it!”

Source : "Angelo Dundee, More Than Just A Good Cornerman". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 4, 2012.

“Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.”

“The match would have to be made at 165 pounds. Sean can't make 160 any more, even though he's drinking lite beer these days”

“There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.”

Source : "The Essays of A. J. Muste (Pacifism and Class War)". Book edited by Nat Hentoff, 1967.