Top 40 Jab Quotes

As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.

I’ve always had heart to get in there and fight. I was taught everything I knew. I was taught how to jab, why to do this, and why not to do that. I was taught that.

‘Jab We Met’ is the reason why I have become an actress.

I have a great jab.

I would beat Michael Bisping. I would jab his face the whole night. Easy.

Derevyanchenko is a come forward fighter. He’s going to bring a lot of power and speed with good technical skills. He calls himself ‘The Technician’ but we’ll see how technical he is once I start putting my jab in his face.

Thompson is a typical American: wide feet, good jab; he’ll try to have a fight.

We’d always said boxers shouldn’t lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody’s gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.

I’m a boxer by nature, so, obviously, the jab is always key – but it is nice to know you’ve got a right hand behind it.

I know Primus is bigger than me, but Chandler’s face was a mess when they fought. He was dropped with a jab. His chin is not that great.

I have a great jab.

I would beat Michael Bisping. I would jab his face the whole night. Easy.

Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn’t have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.

We’d always said boxers shouldn’t lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody’s gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.

If you’re going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.

I feel like the guitar playing gives me rhythm with my punches – really helps to change up my jab.

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

I kind of really study different angles of the film. You see how people’s bodies are, how they react to certain kind of moves – what foot they step with, what hand they jab with, and all that. Just little things like that, that you pick up when you watch film. Studying is big for me.

Fear is what activates your tools; your jab, your movement, your speed, your ability to absorb punishment.

I did some really big films like ‘Vaastav’ with Sanjay Dutt, ‘Pukar’ with Anil Kapoor, and ‘Jab Pyar Kissi se Hota Hai’ with Salman Khan. But I didn’t make any effort to cash in on their success.

I kind of really study different angles of the film. You see how people’s bodies are, how they react to certain kind of moves – what foot they step with, what hand they jab with, and all that. Just little things like that, that you pick up when you watch film. Studying is big for me.

People have just said about me so far that I’m just a big puncher, but I showed that I can command a fight behind my jab, which is the foundation of all good boxing.

It is tougher to control range on a guy who is as tall, lengthy, and busy as Amir Khan, who has a very good jab.

Kell Brook is a strong fighter. He likes to dictate the pace, which most boxers like to do. He likes to use his jab to set up other punches, like the left hook.

When your name is Twinkle, you are a bookworm, and a fat child, then you have to be ready to be made fun of. As a child, I used my fists a lot, but then the tongue seemed like a better option. So I started using words as a sword to jab fun at myself.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

I’m best at my jab and counter movement.

I’ve been working a lot on my jab.

Even when I teach my MMA classes in the gym, it’s hard to teach what I do. It’s more of state of flow, a state of feel. It’s not a robotic thing like one, two, three, kick, one, two, three, switch, jab, cross. It’s completely unorthodox. Everything is about rhythm, tempo and pace. It’s a different style, man.

As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.

A jab is established through timing and that’s how I take it. Cause I have a 76-inch reach but I’m not worried about range. I’m looking to establish that timing so I can see when that chin is available or I see that the nose is available, I can pop it.

The right shoulder is vital, being the one with which the southpaw employs his fast, and very effective, jab, which remains the cornerstone of his work.

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.

It really wasn’t until halfway through my career that I learned had to jab and to box and to kickbox.

I was deemed difficult to deal with and I blame my behavioural problems on the measles jab. I’ve got no proof though; it’s just hearsay, but I do believe a lot of these vaccinations were absolutely unnecessary.

Kell Brook is a strong fighter. He likes to dictate the pace, which most boxers like to do. He likes to use his jab to set up other punches, like the left hook.

People have just said about me so far that I’m just a big puncher, but I showed that I can command a fight behind my jab, which is the foundation of all good boxing.

I got the best jab in the business and I’m going to keep using it because it’s feeding my family.

The thing that I’m most passionate about, I’m writing a book called ‘Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,’ and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.