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I punch a lot of guys on set. It's much easier than in real life as your hands don't hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss.

The best way to take a punch is to look at it. Honestly. Someone could hit you with the hardest punch that they have, but as long as you see it, it's not going to knock you out. It's the punches that you don't see that knock you out. So you could get tapped with a small punch, but if you don't see it, you're out.

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.

It's not hard. When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time - you're going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit.

It must be nice for today's hitters when you don't have to worry about being thrown at. It's a whole different deal. When I played, getting knocked down was an accepted part of the game.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

When I throw a punch, I mean it.