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“I pressed my lips together, trying to find a safe place to focus my attention. He filled the entire shower stall, his skin clean and wet, every part of him chiseled. His gym shorts clung to a package I had no business noticing.”
― Lisa Kessler, Harvest Moon

“Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight. As humble fruit on a tree that falls to the ground and rots, never finding appreciation in the taste of mouths.”
― Anthony Liccione

“As my future crumbled before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. My entire life's struggle was ending here, in plain view of my enemies. How was it possible? Had had I let things come to this?”
― Tony McMahon, No Place to Hide: How I Put the Black in the Union Jack

“I done the best I could with what I had -- Joe Louis”
― Joe Louis

“I had a burning desire in me to win and started to get him on the back foot. I was looking for that one special shot when I put him down with the famous Horsley Muckspreader right handâ€� an unstoppable force. Incredibly, he got up and took the count and the ref waved us to continue.”
― Stephen Richards, Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley

“Eventually, it was around midnight, I was told to get ready and put the gloves on. I felt physically depleted and drained of energy, and had no get-up-and-go left in me. I wanted a bed badly, not a boxing ring.”
― Stephen Richards, Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley

“The crowd started cheering as soon as they seen him, he was one of them, a local lad from Lancashire. In the first round, I tried to put him away but my punches had nothing in them, I might as well as been hitting thin air. It was then that I knew I had to really dig deep if I wanted to hear the final bell; I threw a clever little corkscrew right. A great shot, but ineffective unless it hits with some vigour, which it didn’t!”
― Stephen Richards, Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley

“The crowd were totally behind him and it spurred him on, I was right in the heat of battle. There was only one to win; I dug deep and summoned up every bit of strength, I had in me to put in to one punch to see if I could hit the jackpot. I drew him to the ropes and put everything in to a cracking right uppercut and just missed, bastard!”
― Stephen Richards, Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley

“In the last round I was so wiped-out that for the first time in my life I tried to get disqualified. He was throwing punches non-stop and he was dangerous with those shots and becoming a little bit too cute for my liking. I backed to the ropes and catapulted off them and nutted him.”
― Stephen Richards, Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley

“Everyone in the place seen me nut him apart from the ref, it caught him on the blind side. I tried to nut him on the eyebrow so it would split open, but I got him on the forehead. The crowd turned right against me, but I made it to the last bell and lost on a unanimous decision.”
― Stephen Richards, Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley

“I must have been crazy for taking that fight, I should have told Anth to get on his bike, but what made it worse was I knew if I were in shape I’d have beaten him inside of two rounds. Some people reckon fighters must have a little madness in them, I reckon they might be right.”
― Stephen Richards, Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley

“I made another comeback in the sweet science of boxing, and nobody say I’ve had more comebacks than Frank Sinatraâ€� ‘cos he’s dead.”
― Stephen Richards, Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley

“I went after him and picked him off with a right, like a predator and was all over him like a rash! I was in to him with a right hand lead and out to inflict pain, but it wasn’t all one-sided! This guy was on a wing and a prayer when he threw a chopping right hand that whizzed past me with him on the other end of itâ€� I was blessed, or something!
I had to turn it on and step it up, because if he connected with one of those shots then I was chicken fodder! I could see that his wasted efforts were tiring him by the second. I boxed him from range and kept tying him up, I was now in to a rhythm, I swung lefts and rights, all of them smashing in to his head with an unrelenting ferocity.
By now his face was covered in blood and he was about to go down when the ref stepped in and stopped it. I won; I had defeated Goliath.”
― Stephen Richards, Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley

“He spouted out, ‘Richy, I’ve just been talking to a bloke from Blackpool on the phone, there’s a boxing show tomorrow night and they are desperate for a heavyweight. Will you fight?â€�
I retorted, ‘Are you joking. I haven’t trained for four months; I’ll be blowing after thirty seconds.�
He pleaded, ‘Howay, man. It’ll be a night out down Blackpool.”
― Stephen Richards, Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley