Barry McGuigan Quotes
- The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
- I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely…
- A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
- I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark…
- I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
- I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
- Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
- I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
- What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a…
- If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put…
- I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually…
- Work hard, think fast and you'll last.
- Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to…
- It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.
- Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
- Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
- What do you want me to do, rob a bank?