40 Quotes by Freddie Roach

You can celebrate birthday every year and fights like this (with Morales) comes once in a lifetime,

We're working on boxing and we're going to be smart about it. A basic 1-2 is not going to work. Manny knows that now.

We had too many distractions going into the Morales fight. Now a lot of the bad people are away from the scene and we have a good team, now.

We know Morales can take a punch, because Manny is a puncher and Morales took a lot of Manny's good stuff.

We are going to start training camp in the Philippines for two weeks then we will go back to the States for another six weeks.

We love the Filipino crowds and it was great to have them there, but it got too much in the end. You couldn't breath in the gym, as more and more came each day.

We chose this opponent because he has a style similar to Morales', ... I think this fight will definitely help prepare him for the next fight.

Erik has a propensity to hold his hands way up. That leaves his body wide open. We saw that, and we broke him down.

The tide turned in the sixth round. I could see Morales was fading from the body punches. Manny's right hook was beautiful. We still have to work on Manny's defense a bit.