Jermain Taylor Quotations

I don't have to have a knockout. I just need to win this fight and leave no doubts in the minds of my fans or his fans,

I feel like I have all the love and respect for him, I know he's just a scared man, he's nothing else. And now he doesn't have the belts anymore.

I give nothing but respect to Bernard Hopkins. He fought very well, and he has proven that he's a tough fighter and a true champion. But right now, I'm the champion. I feel like I am a champion.

He has nothing, ... You were the champion. I gave you too much respect and now I'm ready. It's time for the man to go and I'm going to do it.

Having held my last training camp there, and it being just two hours from Little Rock, Memphis is like a second home to me. I can't wait to perform in front of my fans from Arkansas and my adopted hometown fans in Memphis. It's going to be a great night.

He showed me he has the tools and the heart to be a champ ? once I'm gone,

That fight was way too close for comfort,

I'm so sick of it, I'm crying. So I brought him a few things. Did I rob him? I got nothing to do with the judges.

I'm still going to respect him and the fact he held those belts that long,

Whoever comes to Little Rock, I'm knocking him out!

Every boxer that puts on the gloves dreams of someday hearing the words 'and new champion...'

I'm hoping it's in Little Rock. If not in Little Rock, somewhere close, so my Arkansas fans can come.

I remember Sergio Mora as a real good boxer. He surprised me. He surprised everybody.

I gave it 110% and I feel like I won it. Bernard is a very tough man and I have to give him respect. He is a very tricky fighter and he's really tough to hit cleanly. But you have to work to get him. I thought the decision was fair because I outworked him. If Bernard wants to fight me again, we can do it. In the sport of boxing anything can happen.

He's just an all around dirty fighter. I can't stress that enough, he's just dirty. He's always been dirty, he's known for this. He's no boxer and I don't think that he'll be remembered as a great boxer, just a dirty, dirty fighter. He don't win the right way, he cheats to win and I don't consider that winning a boxing match, (much less) an undisputed middleweight title (match).

He's scared of me. That's why he runs in the early rounds. But now I know him and I have his belt. I know I can knock him out.

I don't know if it's his age, ... I think it's his skills, period. He has nothing left.

If he was any kind of man, he wouldn't be crying the way he is right now.

If I had lost that fight, I wouldn't be saying I got robbed. It was a close fight, and in those later rounds, he did get off. I give him that. But in those early rounds, I did just enough to win and get my respect.

I did a lot of things I don't normally do in that fight and it bothers me. There were a bunch of nerves when I first walked out there, it being for a championship and all. I won't give him so much space. I won't waste so many punches or chase him around.