Lennox Lewis famous quotes

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Sports #Boxing #Opponents

How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!
-- Lennox Lewis

#Men #Boxing #Minutes

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Skills #Boxing #Opponents

It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Boxing #Competition #Rage

Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Focus #Needs #Complacency

Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Dreamer #Action

I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Want #Shortcuts #Found

You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals -- my mission is complete.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Goal #Hunger #Missions

I play chess about four hours a day in training camp. You have to decide what move to use, or what combination of moves. I think less when I box because the reaction time is a lot quicker, but some people call me the chess boxer because they say I think too much in the ring. I take my time and they don't see the action they want. Some boxers just go in there and just throw punches and hope to win...
-- Lennox Lewis

#Sports #Moving #Winning

People know I was the last true champion.
-- Lennox Lewis

#People #Champion #Lasts

Whatever I do, I always want to get better.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Get Better #Want

You can just fight one man at a time.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Fighting #Men

The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Champion #Heavyweights #World

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Compassion #Mind #Reason

I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Kids #Boxing #Age

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist. .
-- Lennox Lewis

#Adversity #Goal #Reaching

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Careers #Goal #New Car

I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Heavyweights #Scene #Accomplished

I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knowk you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Attitude #Children #School

I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Character #Boxing #Cartoon

The fight will last as long as I allow it to last...
-- Lennox Lewis

#Fighting #Long #Lasts

During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Past #Years #Numbers

I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Heavyweights #Plans #Rings

I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world.
-- Lennox Lewis

#World #Fighter #Prove

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Media #Chess #Angle

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.
-- Lennox Lewis

#New Life #Boxers #Just Being

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Hunger #Boxes #Feels

I don't have anything else to prove.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Prove

In boxing, if you think you will lose..you're already halfway there.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Thinking #Boxing #Halfway

I just want to complete my legacy.
-- Lennox Lewis

#Legacy #Want