Author Profile
Chris Eubank Sr.
1966 • British • Athlete
60
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesThe Watson fight was the worst beating I ever took in a ring, but I couldn't quit.— Chris Eubank Sr.
I am a sensitive, emotionally conditioned human being, and I have suffered racist abuse.— Chris Eubank Sr.
Most of the planet is covered with water, so there must be a clue to its worth in that fact.— Chris Eubank Sr.
I've became a coffee drinker since I gave up boxing. I also love to eat anything cooked by a Jamaican. Carbs like rice, yellow yam, Renta yam, sweet yam. Also salt fish fried with onions.— Chris Eubank Sr.
My father, who was illiterate, smoothed iron for Ford Dagenham and we'd get up at 5;30 A.M. to give him a jump-start. My mother was a nurse and part of the Windrush generation. Growing up in east London, we were financially poor, but rich in hope and dignity, and we were happy.— Chris Eubank Sr.
I've prospered because of my father. I know I'll never be his equal, but I've prospered because I've honoured my parents.— Chris Eubank Sr.
I was a speed freak once. I had an Aston Martin when I first made it big and I used to take it to its limits. I once drove from Lewes to London in 45 minutes - mad.— Chris Eubank Sr.
The people who have done it - I have been in there - a lot of people love boxing but they have not actually been in there, and haven't tasted the bitterness of a beating.— Chris Eubank Sr.
Fortunately, I was technically skilled, so I didn't have to bludgeon people, I didn't have to batter them.— Chris Eubank Sr.
In accordance to the way that Benn speaks, he is not educated. Sure, he's educated to a certain extent, but under different circumstances he would be a bouncer on some door in the West End and he'd have three kids from three different women... I am a superior person to that. I have finer points.— Chris Eubank Sr.