More Eubank quotes..! Real or fake..??
Posted: 14 Nov 2007, 03:00
They look real to me..
The way I approach mental warfare in the four-cornered circle has always been through experience and for me, the physical fight itself is not to be considered as important as the mental preparation.
Once you've prepared you cannot fail. As the saying goes 'If you fail to prepare, then prepare to fail.'
When I'm asked for advise I speak to boxers about body language and confidence. It's all about confidence.
When a fighter tells you he's unbeatable, don't listen. There is always someone out there who will be able to beat you.
The fact I realised that is why I reigned for more fights than anyone else, 46 to be precise.
You know your own skills, you have convictions. I knew I would beat Watson, I knew I would beat Benn, I knew I would beat Logan, I knew I would beat Corti, (and) I knew I would beat Stretch.
You have conviction in your skills and abilities and you have conviction in others (skills and abilities). My convinction was proved correct every time.
I reigned as champion in my own right for five-and-a-half years straight and lost the title to Steve Collins in Cork Stadium.
If I ducked a fighter, I wouldn't have had the title to lose.
You can reign as a champion for one-and-a-half years, but if you duck a fighter then the belt is taken and your reign effectively down the drain pipe.
That's not champion material. One must be champion material if you want to call yourself champion.
What fighters like Naseem (Hamed) don't realise is that they would never be a champion, going that way.
It's not just about having a belt. Being a champion is being humble; being a champion is carrying yourself and behaving yourself correctly, not being bolshie.
The reason that fighters like Naseem make the vast sums of cash they do is because I opened the floodgates.
I set the paths that fighters like Naseem have followed.
I idolised no boxer, no man. For me, imitation is suicide. I used words of inspiration.
If I tried to be like (Marvin) Hagler or Sugar Ray Robinson, I'd be committing suicide.
To strut my stuff in the States was the opportunity I craved. But Don King owned that piece of land, and I found the strength to push him away.
He's seductive, and I was his No. 1 target, but he's taking away too much control and one must stand his ground and have that will power to say 'no'.
Why would you want to be the best in the world? That's suicidal. Why not be one of the best in the world?
These fighters you speak of, (James) Toney and (Roy) Jones, if I got in the ring with them someone would have ended up dead.
That's not a fact, but it's a reasonable observation. I was smarter than that, and that's actual strength.
It wasn't my will to be in the ring with the best fighter in the world, but if you find yourself in with the best, as I did in Watson 2, then to quit from the punishment is the last thing to do because that is not a man of integrity.
Where there's a will there's a way. But I had no will to be the considered the best fighter in the world.
My will was to make the world a better place, and I did that by using my platform to portray uprightness and rectitude, express my philosophies to the British public and get across my message of practicising good conduct.
My words have never changed.