Belfast Quote by Carl Frampton

I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.

— Kenneth Branagh

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

— Pierce Brosnan

I've had the hardest upbringing of any fighter in England.

— Chris Eubank Jr

I got into boxing for two reasons. One was that my father was a boxer. Secondly when I was young, all healthy men in…

— Brian London

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.

— Katie Melua

I've always wanted be as great as I could possibly be at the sport of boxing.

— Keith Thurman

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very,…

— Ricky Hatton

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.

— Alexis Arguello

Yes, I started off as a bare-knuckle boxer.

— Wade Barrett

I know for a fact if I were a white English fighter, maybe I would have been a superstar in Britain - and the…

— Amir Khan

Looking back now, I realise that belonging to the family of a labourer actually helped to prepare my body for boxing. There were many…

— Mary Kom

Boxers don't tend to come from Cambridge or Oxford. Sometimes the things we say don't come out well. We are not known for our…

— Ricky Hatton