Roy Jones Jr. Quotes

One thing you gotta know about Roy. The way I always saw myself, is I'm just like you. In the ring, I have a gift ... That gift ain't on the basketball court. That gift ain't at home. You understand me? That gift is in the ring.

I always feel like there's no fighter that I can't figure out.

I feel ashamed tonight that we treated Lennox Lewis the way we did because he gave it all his effort but everytime Don King's involved, you can expect a draw to come from somewhere. Ask Pernell Whitaker about the Julio Cesar Chavez fight ... I thought Evander Holyfield gave a very game effort, but you win some and you lose some ... tonight I'm upset because Lennox Lewis did not lose and it was not a draw. It's as simple as that.

Boxing's an art, it's a science, and you don't go out to knock people out. If they happen to get knocked out, they happen to run into one of these bricks by mistake [looks at his fists], that's their fault.

He don't know what it is to lose, so I gotta teach him something that he doesn't know yet.

I don't know if I'm the best Pound-For-Pound fighter ever. I know I'm close. I gotta be Top 5.

We're in Madison Square Garden, I can't let you beat me in Madison Square Garden, are you serious!?

He just got his neck broke one time, I'm not tryna break his neck again, that's not what I fight for. I fight to have fun, not to hurt nobody.

I think I might've turned 39, look like I turned 29, feel like I turned about 19.

There's no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes.

It was a tough situation. A fight that nobody expected to end so abruptly for him because he was really a great fighter. I felt sorry for him and I knew it could happen to anybody. And it could happen to any of us at any time. So when I was in a position to help him, I did what I could to help him.

I never was a person that wanted that life ... I'm a leader not a follower. I don't care what they say, or what they're doing or what they're wearing. Go ahead, cos come Judgement Day, all of that won't matter. How many people did you help. How many people did you talk to. How many people did you try to encourage. How many people did you bring to God. That's what's gon' matter.

Boxing is not brutal, it's an art - God has gifted me with incredible handspeed as a tool to be used - what else am I supposed to do but fight? There ain't no hand-racing competitions.

I was concerned about them. I mean, it feels good but I was concerned about them.

Sorry to disappoint you but I don't even watch the Olympics no more.

If you go to Madison Square Garden, you better have your A game ready, because here goes the thing, they love boxing. They either like you, or they don't like you. They're either cheering for you, or they're cheering for you to die ... They want you to kill, or be killed.

I hope that not one of them ever wanna even think about boxing.

If they just reverse the division, ban the judges, and then it'll discourage other judges from ever doing this.

When I fought Montell Griffin, he quit on me, on the floor, I hit him with a soft punch and he laid down like I knocked him out, and it kinda upset me. I told him I don't care what it is, just give me the rematch. And then I really had to teach him the difference between acting like you've been knocked out, and getting hit for real.

Can't be touched, Can't be stopped, Can't be moved, Can't be rocked, Can't be shook.