Fighting Quote by Sugar Ray Leonard

Counting amateur fights, I have over a thousand bouts.

— Jake LaMotta

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

— Mickey Rourke

As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.

— Ricky Hatton

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

— Jimmy Piersall

My first professional fight was a tournament with maybe one or two thousand people there.

— Aleksei Oleinik

I've won junior titles, ABA titles and boxed for England all over the world against future Olympic champions as an amateur - and then…

— George Groves

I didn't even know about amateur boxing, period.

— Deontay Wilder

I had 14 amateur fights, and I went out there and knocked a lot of them out. Trainingwise, we would pretty much just spar.

— Sean O'Malley

I was fighting at 125 pounds when I was 15 years old... then became a champion at 126 pounds at 25 years old.

— Mikey Garcia

My first four fights in amateur at middleweight, and the first four professional were at welterweight. And I just kind of went down from…

— Alexander Volkanovski

I've had over seven thousand pro fights.

— Roddy Piper

I lost an amateur fight where it was supposed to be my last amateur fight before going pro and people were like, 'Oh, you…

— Cody Garbrandt