Andre Ward famous quotes

Every fighter is my toughest challenge to date. After I get done with one fight, the next challenge is the toughest.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Fighting #Challenges

The road I've taken to this point has not been easy. Being back on HBO is a big thing, but fighting on HBO in my hometown is huge. To be great you have to fight the best. Chad has beaten the best so these are the type fights I want to take. I will put on a great show for all the fans that come out to Oracle Arena.
-- Andre Ward

#Taken #Fighting #Hbo

I like to talk come fight night, that's how I do it, but I'm not a pushover.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Fighting #Night

In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.
-- Andre Ward

#Giving Up #Motivation #School

I got knocked down, I don't know how many years ago and I haven't been off my feet since, and I responded again against the best in division without the respect of having the chin I'm supposed to have.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Years #Feet

That's what makes a fighter. I got dropped and I got back up, and I found a way to get the win.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Winning #Way

As a man, I have no problem saying I was hurt.
-- Andre Ward

#Hurt #Motivation #Men

Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.
-- Andre Ward

#Hurt #Motivation #Definitions

You're only as good as your last fight. It's just the way things are. It's the way that the sport is built.
-- Andre Ward

#Sports #Motivation #Fighting

I'm just excited that the fans are going to get their money's worth, and you can't say that a lot of the times.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Fans #Fighter

I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Thinking #Boxing

I'm not gloating over Chad Dawson, he's still the man in my book.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Book #Men

I'm not going to say that I'm the best, we respect our champions. Floyd's been doing this a lot longer than me, he's been a lot of mega fights and I won't dare say that I'm better than Floyd Mayweather.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Fighting #Champion

Even if you are sick, you fight until you have nothing left.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Fighting #Sick

He says he was physically not right, that's fine but the mentality, even if you're not right, you're still in a fight and you still show what you have deep down inside, and I don't think he showed the mettle that he needed to show in that fight in order to beat a guy like Miranda.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Fighting #Thinking

I think Bute would have to face off with the Super Six Champion to prove that he's the best Super Middleweight. You come out of a tournament like this on top, that demands a lot of respect and carries a lot of weight.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Thinking #Champion

I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Husband #Dad

Anybody that's in my weight class, above me or beneath me, I keep an eye on.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Eye #Class

It's one thing to have an eye for the sport, and it's another to have a feel for the sport. He has both.
-- Andre Ward

#Sports #Motivation #Eye

I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Lazy #Fighter

What you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Fighting #Fighter

This fight should be dubbed, 'No Excuses.' If Carl Froch beats me, there won't be any excuses. I beat Carl Froch, there shouldn't be any excuses. No judges, no referees, no nothing. May the best man win.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Fighting #Winning

You can still entertain without getting a knockout.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Fighter #Knockouts

It's not about size, it's a science.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Size #Fighter

I told myself that I'll do everything within my power to never let that happen again.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Fighter

I want my legacy to be that I was a man of character, I was a God fearing man and somebody who bettered the sport in terms of the way I represented the sport. But also that fact that I was a fierce competitor and fought the best in the world and was able to come out on top, so if those things could be said about me, then I look at it as a job well done.
-- Andre Ward

#Sports #Jobs #Motivation

The way my father raised me, we don't pat ourselves on the back. We don't call ourselves great, we let other people do that.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Father #People

He's built up to be invincible and no man is invincible, any man can be knocked out.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Men #Fighter

A lot of people look for you to change. Everything has stayed the same. Financially, this is God's money, and my wife and I are just stewards of it.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #People #Wife

I think he takes a good shot, I take a good shot too, but taking too many shots is not good for any fighter. And it's not really a reputation you want.
-- Andre Ward

#Motivation #Thinking #Want

The part that sickens me about boxing is guys fight their whole careers and they have nothing to show for it. That's not going to be my testimony. When it's time to get out of the game, I want to be able to walk away. I'm not going to jeopardize my health. I will have no problems walking away.
-- Andre Ward

#Fighting #Walking Away #Games