Best Heavyweight Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“For me to go up to heavyweight, my prediction is I definitely want to knock out a heavyweight. 'That'd be good.”

“Gassing is a huge thing to a heavyweight.”

“I think that if the UFC wants to please me, I think maybe a fight at heavyweight one day would be something that would really please me.”

“I will say this, most traditional heavyweights are going to struggle with a guy like Ryan Bader and most traditional heavyweights are going to struggle with a guy like Linton Vassell. Linton beat Kharitonov like he stole something. Once he got him on the ground it was over.”

“I was a heavyweight in the football world. You don't have of the type of players that I was anymore.”

“At heavyweight? It can be a heavy jab and that could be the fight, it could be lights out.”

“Cormier is used to fighting big guys at heavyweight and beat Miocic decisively.”

“I want to be the fighting heavyweight of the world. America needs one of those, and I can be that guy for them.”

“I want to be among the best heavyweights in the UFC.”

“When the fans say 'Werdum is the greatest heavyweight in the world,' I love this for sure.”

“It's easier to be heavyweight than make 205!”

“It's what you bring to the table for downloads and how many pay-per-views you can get. For an up and coming heavyweight, it's difficult to break into that scene. You have to take a pay cut.”

“Wilder has taken the hardest fights, out of any heavyweight in the world. He's fought the most difficult fighters, in my opinion.”

“I always loved Evander Holyfield because people think of him as a small heavyweight, but of course from the waist up he was a pretty good-sized guy, but he just had these little skinny legs and no booty and it made him look like he was small.”

“The thing is this sport doesn't have a heavyweight who is prettier than I am and can get down.”

“David Haye was the perfect opponent for me because he was a small heavyweight with a big name and we were about the same size.”

“I'm one of those heavyweights who'd like to fight as often as possible.”

“I will move up to heavyweight and show them all how good I am.”

“A lot of people don't believe in me. They think I'm too small for heavyweight. Just like a lot of people told me long ago that I shouldn't box. That I wasn't going to make it. I just knock my head and say I'm capable. I can do it.”

“You can train with heavyweight guys, you can train with 205 guys but this is training. A fight is completely different.”

“You have to know how to move properly. A lot of these heavyweights go out there and they're fighting like it's a street fight. They're trying to win in the first 30 seconds.”

“The match with Taka Michinoku for the Light Heavyweight title was in fact my first match with the WWE, but I didn't know about it until I got to the building.”

“I think 205 is the place for me. I walk around at 225, 230 at the most, and that's kind of small for a heavyweight. I think 205 is where I'll be.”

“DC is tough and he's such a good athlete. I think he's better at heavyweight than he is at light heavyweight. I think he's stronger, he can eat and he doesn't have to stress about the weight.”

“I fought K-1 at heavyweight.”

“I always rated Luis Ortiz as one of the best heavyweights.”

“I've been a heavyweight in boxing, in kickboxing. I'll do it in again in MMA.”

“I will always find something to challenge myself. I will go up to heavyweight or down to middleweight.”

“To have a heavyweight world champion from Manchester is something you can only dream of.”

“Oh man, I would love to fight Evander Holyfield. I don't think any of the other great heavyweights fought four times - that's history in itself.”

“I can't think of any heavyweights that would match up well with me. They're all too big.”

“In boxing, Mike Tyson fascinates me. The attitude and confidence that he could not be beaten when he was heavyweight champion of the world was interesting. He came across as very mild-mannered, and much of what he said made sense.”

“I do think Wilder can be a household name in America. He is a good fighter, and he has knockout power and has knockout potential, which is what you need as a heavyweight.”

“My punching power passes any other heavyweight.”

“I think with every heavyweight, there's a style that makes for a different fight with different fighters.”

“If Dana White said he wanted to fight heavyweight, everybody would watch that fight tomorrow just because they want to watch Dana get beat up or win or whatever it is.”

“Florida A&M University was my first real introduction to politics as a heavyweight game.”

“Cain has proven himself as the best heavyweight of all time, and it would be hard to strip him.”

“I feel great being the first Mexican heavyweight UFC champion.”

“I would meet Tim Elliott at 135. At heavyweight if he wanted.”

“I can match any of the fastest heavyweights out there and I am ready for a fight.”

“I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.”

“If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.”

“That's what I'm tryin' to achieve. I want to be a heavyweight in this game, and I'm tryin' to get the big money. By the same token, the title 'Big Money Heavyweight' applies to everybody in the world. That's what everybody's tryin' to achieve.”

“I'm a numbers person. If you're a heavyweight, if you throw 20 punches, at least five of them going to land. And it don't take but one of them to put you out.”

“What light heavyweight moves like I do? There's not.”

“My body size and everything was perfect for being a heavyweight wrestler rather than being a linebacker.”

“The overall goal is to be a well-rounded fighter. It's to be the heavyweight Jon Jones. It's to be Cain Velasquez.”

“Light heavyweight is definitely where I'm going to stay.”

“Jon Jones at heavyweight? Me, I don't like that so much.”

“When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.”

“If you were in the UFC as a heavyweight, you'd be an idiot to not want to fight Brock Lesnar. Whether he's a good fight for you, that doesn't matter.”

“Personally, I think I might end up fighting heavyweight in the future. I can just see myself keep growing. I'll be 24, 25, growing 2, 3, 4 more inches, and putting on a lot of muscle. I can absolutely see it.”

“I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.”

“I wanted to show the world what Deontay Wilder is all about. I'm a heavyweight, and I'm exciting.”

“I can strike if I have to, but I'm not going to play that game, this is heavyweight. If I was a bantamweight or a lightweight or a welterweight, I'd play that game, because you can eat five, six heavy punches and the risk isn't the same.”

“A guy with my size and speed, the technical savate kicks can be very dangerous for a heavyweight.”

“The heavyweight boxing needs Shannon Briggs and boxing needs Shannon Briggs.”

“I mean, look at that Klitschko/Fury fight. That fight sucked! And they get paid what, $12 million? I've seen so many better fights from flyweights and heavyweights in the UFC, because we're true fighters at heart, we'll go in there and put on a show but we're not getting paid like that.”

“I've been in the ring with big-muscled heavyweights and cruiserweights, who couldn't punch the skin off a rice pudding, and then I've taken on light welterweights and light middleweights, and they hit hard, and you can see they're not trying.”

“The thing about heavyweight is you don't have to cut weight, but the only thing about heavyweight that you gotta think about is, light heavyweight hit hard, heavyweights hit harder.”

“There are not many heavyweight fighters to come by, so having so many sparring partners is a big luxury a lot of other fighters don't have.”

“If you look at heavyweight history, it's not too often you see a fight going five full rounds.”

“Let's make the fight with Jon Jones. That's the fight I want for heavyweight.”