Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to make sure you have the right people around you to get the right fights, and you're not guaranteed to get the best fights.
Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.
Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave.
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.
There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.
There's so much pressure on becoming the next Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, and if you don't achieve that in boxing, you're nothing.
A true champion will fight through anything.
Looking back, I couldn't get enough fights because Don King owned most of the top 10 fighters, and he never gave me a fight.
That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.