Classic Boxing Quotes

[Lostmykeys]

I remember there was a thread before the crash of classic boxing quotes.
I'm putting this one up to replace it.

[thunder06]

"There will never be another white heavyweight champion"

- Larry Holmes.

that was a stupid thing to say, but u gotta admit it took some balls to say it. after talking shit about marciano and then shoving in white america's face, he was truly pissed. Marciano KO15 Holmes, btw.

[Thread Stealer]

"These fellas, how dare they challenge me with their primitive skills? They're just as good as dead"- Mike Tyson

"He can run but he can't hide"- Joe Louis

[alex-boxer42]

"What Knockdown?" Vic Darchinyan


:lol:

[thunder06]

Bob Fitzsimmons: "The bigger they are, the harder they fall."

Joe Louis: "He can run, but he can't hide."

George Foreman: "There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer."

Max Baer: "He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."

Joe Frazier: "Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him."

Mike Tyson: "When you’re a great finisher, you’ll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher."

Angelo Dundee: "Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way."

Joe Louis on Rocky Marciano: "It hurt to even bump into him."

Taff Corbett: "If I fought Evander with a baseball bat, I would win the fight, but it would be by decision."

Brian London, answering if he would fight Ali again: "Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg."

Willie Pep: "I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set -- and they're both working."

Here is a conversation between George Foreman and Bob Arum in 1995, Foreman: "Bob, I can't chase these guys anymore." Arum's reply: "George, I cant put it in the contract."

Randall "Tex" Cobb: "If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass."

Lennox Lewis; "I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character."

Lennox Lewis; "I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knock you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting."

Don King, on boxing's rating system: "When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing."

Buddy McGirt, when he was asked by Gil Clancy who would win the up-coming fight between Maurice Blocker and Glenwood Brown he replied: "The black guy."

Harry Carpenter: "This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose."

Willie Pep, talking to an old opponent years after each retired. "Do you recognize me?" the old opponent asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognize you."

Harry Kabakoff, on Chango Cruz: "The bum was up and down so many times. that I thought he was an Otis elevator."

Joe Frazier: “I hit him with body shots that would have brought down the walls of a city. Lawdy he's a great champion." After the Thrilla in Manila.

George Foreman: "That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick."

George Foreman: "The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters."

Harry Carpenter: "It's not one of Bruno's fastest wins... but it's one of them."

Max Baer, when asked for his definition of fear: "Standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early."

Harry Carpenter: "Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue."

Dan Castellaneta: "If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such."

Shane Mosley; "The Glory is the issue to me. Money comes and goes, but a legacy stays forever. I hate to lose"

Sugar Ray Leonard; "It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable."

Blackie Sherrod, talking about a heavyweight contender: "He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts."

Tommy Farr: "Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed."


Dan Duva, on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King: " Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."

Tex Cobb, responding to a reporter who said Cobb was a fat, cocaine snorting , drunk. Cobb replied: "I'm not fat.


Jim Watt, former WBC lightweight champion, when asked about his "white complexion" by a reporter said: "I'm like a bottle of milk with gloves."

Lennox Lewis was asked why he did not sign a contract with Don King after won the Olympic Gold medal, his response "How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!"

Sugar Ray Leonard was asked on the Johnny Carson show, "when do the wounds from the fight heal", his reply "when the check clears."

Evander Holyfield "A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion."

Randall "Tex" Cobb: "When I got up I stuck to my plan -- stumbling forward and getting hit in the face."

Larry Holmes: "It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once when I was poor."

Sonny Liston: "Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."

Willie Pastrano, when asked by the ring doctor if he knew where he was: "You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the shit knocked out of me."

Henry Cooper, replying to boxing abolitionist, Baroness Edith Summerskill, about the brutalities of his sport. Baroness: "Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?"
Cooper: "Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?"

Alan Minter: "Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."

Gerry Cooney: "Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning."

Frank Bruno: Boxing is just show business with blood."

Jack Dempsey: "Honey, I forgot to duck."

[Jose FM]

"What Knockdown?" Vic Darchinyan


:lol:
:yep

[Beebs]

that was a stupid thing to say, but u gotta admit it took some balls to say it. after talking shit about marciano and then shoving in white america's face, he was truly pissed. Marciano KO15 Holmes, btw.

Yea it takes "balls" to insult an entire race of human being, balls. :roll:

[jonesjrp4p1]

Willie Pastrano, when asked by the ring doctor if he knew where he was: "You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the shit knocked out of me."




hahahahaha:lol:

[BigReg]

De La Hoya on why he didn't jab Mayweather more

"It wasn't the night of the jab"

[thunder06]

Yea it takes "walls" to insult an entire race of human being, malls. :roll:


ok....:huh

[My dinner with Conteh]

Yea it takes "balls" to insult an entire race of human being, balls. :roll:


Holmes was a dick, we all know that. A classless buffoon of the highest order.

[My dinner with Conteh]

Harry Carpenter: "This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose."


Ha ha, great stuff. :lol:

[McGrain]

UNKNOWN JOE LOUIS SPARRING PARTNER: It's his eyes...they're blank and staring, always watching you. That blank look - that's what gets you down.

FLOYD PATTERSON: I was never knocked out. I've been unconscious but it's always been on my feet.

JACK DEMPSEY: You're in there for three-minute rounds with gloves on and a referee. That's not real fighting.

FLOYD PATTERSON: It's like being in love with a woman, she can be unfaithful, she can be mean, she can be cruel, but it doesn't matter. If you love her you want her, even though she can do you all kinds of harm. It's the same with me and boxing. It can do you all kinds of harm. I love it.

[McGrain]

Here's my very favourite; i write it about twice a week in here:



ALI: You really think you could've whipped me?

LOUIS: When I was fighting we had a thing called the bum of the month tour.

ALI: You callin me a bum?!

LOUIS: You would've been, on the tour.

[TBooze]

Frank Bruno on why he did not beat Tyson...

"that's cricket"

(explains a lot)

[Raggamuffin]

I heard a great one on here before or on another boxing site.

Gene Fulmmer after he got knocked out by that classic left hook from SRR:
After getting up he asked:
"why is he jumping up and down like he's won ?
His trainer replied: "cause he knocked you out"

[McGrain]

"why is he jumping up and down like he's won ?
His trainer replied: "cause he knocked you out"

:lol:

Reminds me of the Lennox Lewis fight after Rahman 1 - "Who won?"

[justaboxingfan]

Bob Arum, replying to a reporters question. "Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth."

Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts: "To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other."

Bob Arum, after his fighter, Iran Barkley, beat Darrian Van Horn: "If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse."

Marlene Bugner, wife of Joe Bugner: "I don't know what impressive is, but Joe was impressive tonight."

Muhammad Ali: "It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am."

Mike Tyson, on fighting Lennox Lewis: "My main objective is to be professional, but to kill him."

Joe Frazier, talking to Ken Norton at a social gathering. Frazier: "Hey man, what you been doing?"; Norton: "My wife just had a baby."; Frazier: "Congratulations! Whose baby is it?"

Mark Kaylor: "I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time."

Lou Duva, Veteran boxing trainer, on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."

Muhammad Ali, when asked about his golf game: "I'm the best. I just haven't played yet."

Muhammed Ali: "There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up."

[fists of fury]

Here's my very favourite; i write it about twice a week in here:



ALI: You really think you could've whipped me?

LOUIS: When I was fighting we had a thing called the bum of the month tour.

ALI: You callin me a bum?!

LOUIS: You would've been, on the tour.

That's one of my favourites as well. Great quote.

"Your hotdog won't get cold." - Mike Tyson when asked how long a fight with Holyfield fight would last.

"Aw mama, I forgot to duck, that's all." - Leon Spinks after getting KO'd by Gerrie Coetzee.

"Oh my God, he hit so hard, like a fucking mule kick." - Tyson on Razor Ruddock's power.

"George can still beat anyone, except me." - Ali after Rumble in the Jungle

"He hit me hard enough to knock me down, so I guess that's hard enough." - Joe Louis on whether Galento hit hard.

"If you even dream it, you should apologize" - Joe Louis to Muhammad Ali, who claimed he'd have whipped Joe.

"It looked like the whole of Harlem was in the ring that night." - Max Baer explaining his swimming vision when put down by Louis.

"It felt beautiful." - Floyd Patterson explaining what it felt like to be knocked out by Liston.

"My ear is sore!" -Vic Toweel's first words as champ after dethroning Manuel Ortiz for the bantamweight title.

"Everyone talks, now he's talking too." Julio Cesar Chavez before Hector Camacho fight.

"He made these wimpering sounds, like a woman." - Tyson describing Tyrell Biggs whenever he landed a body shot.

[McGrain]

CHARLEY BURLEY upon being asked how he felt having never taken dirty money, and perhaps failed to secure a title shot because of that:

It wasn't my style. I think it paid off to a certain extent. You have a better feeling about yourself.


SUGAR RAY ROBINSON upon WALTER WITCHELL suggesting he fight CHARLEY BURLEY.

Walter...I though you were my friend.

[TBooze]

I heard a great one on here before or on another boxing site.

Gene Fulmmer after he got knocked out by that classic left hook from SRR:
After getting up he asked:
"why is he jumping up and down like he's won ?
His trainer replied: "cause he knocked you out"

Gene actually stated in an interview (Boxing's Greatest Knockouts)

"They dragged me to a corner and when I came round, I said to my trainer:

"look at him dancing up and down between rounds, he is 37 years old!"

That is when my trainer said they had stopped the fight.

People always asked me whether it hurts when you get Ko'd? Well I got Ko'd once (by Robinson) and I did not feel a thing!"

[fg2227]

Frank Bruno talking about tyson


He beat me the way my dad used to beat me.

[Raggamuffin]

Gene actually stated in an interview (Boxing's Greatest Knockouts)

"They dragged me to a corner and when I came round, I said to my trainer:

"look at him dancing up and down between rounds, he is 37 years old!"

That is when my trainer said they had stopped the fight.

People always asked me whether it hurts when you get Ko'd? Well I got Ko'd once (by Robinson) and I did not feel a thing!"

Thnxs for setting the record straight:thumbsup

[TBooze]

CHARLEY BURLEY upon being asked how he felt having never taken dirty money, and perhaps failed to secure a title shot because of that:

It wasn't my style. I think it paid off to a certain extent. You have a better feeling about yourself.


SUGAR RAY ROBINSON upon WALTER WITCHELL suggesting he fight CHARLEY BURLEY.

Walter...I though you were my friend.

You also had the other famous Robinson quote about Burley...

Asked why he would not fight Burley he replied

"I'm too pretty"

[garymcfall]

"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like a infantile retard."

Iron Mike Tyson

[McGrain]

You also had the other famous Robinson quote about Burley...

Asked why he would not fight Burley he replied

"I'm too pretty"

Doesn't make much sense that one, Burley probably would have stopped him with body shots :hey


As we're on the subject of Mr.Charley Burley, I rather like this one courtesy of Archie Moore:

When people ask me who was the best fighter I ever met I tell them Rocky Marciano because that's what they want to hear. Hell, Marciano beat me when I was 42 and I gave him a great battle. Eddie Booker and Charley Burley were the best. They beat me in my prime. Booker broke my ribs and Burley gave me a boxing lesson...Fighting Charley was almost inhuman, because he kept his punches coming at you like a riveting gun...he was a human machinegun, and nearly as dangerous.

[Ramon Rojo]

Marciano KO15 Holmes

No way. Marciano would lose.

[Stonehands89]

Before his fight with Chavez, Greg Haugan disdained his record by asking "who'd he fight? Tijuana taxi drivers?"

After his beating, he was interviewed in the ring with a smiling Chavez standing beside him and was asked what he thinks now. Haugan: "those must have been some tough taxi drivers!"

[Raggamuffin]

Max Schmelling - "I zee somzing"
Joe Jacobs - "We wuz robbed"

[Lostmykeys]

Good stuff, keep it comin boys.

[Sonny Carson]

"Ya'll can all kiss where the sun don't shine, and for all those that don't know, that's my big black behind"-Larry Holmes

"I can't fret about a little bronchitis"-Mike Tyson

"Chris Eubank I'll beat you and ya mama's ass"-James Toney

"We gon call Larry Homes the peanut, cause he got a peanut shaped head"-Muhammad Ali

[Mike T]

'I'm just gonna fade into bolivian"
Iron Mike

[garymcfall]

"We gon call Larry Homes the peanut, cause he got a peanut shaped head"-Muhammad Ali

haha ive never heard that before thats great :lol:

[mcvey]

I remember there was a thread before the crash of classic boxing quotes.
I'm putting this one up to replace it.
"my right hand dont leave me no more"an aging Joe Louis.
"he s good but I wonder how good he will be when he is 38 fighting someone who is 23",Holmes on Tyson.
"last one ups a sissy"Max Baer after flooring Carnera and being dragged down with him.
"I had him but I got too goddamned careless"Tami Muriello after momentarily wobbling Louis ,then being floored 3 times and kod in 1 round.
"you M F ,Ill get you",Marciano looking up from the floor at Walcott round 1.

[TBooze]

"I'm going to make you my girlfriend... I wanna kiss them big rubber lips!"


Tyson to Ruddock



"I'm sure the bleeding ref only trained for 10 rounds."


Terry Downes after the referee stopped his bout with Paul Pender in the 11th



"Lay down, so I can recognize you."


Willie Pep on meeting a former opponent 40 years later



"I found a bad way to get famous"


Bobby Frankham on causing a riot at Wembley by punching ref Richie Davies



And sadly:


"I will win my title back or die"


Marcel Cerdan after losing to LaMotta: (Cerdan died in a plane crash on his way to the rematch.)

[mcvey]

I remember there was a thread before the crash of classic boxing quotes.
I'm putting this one up to replace it.
Fighters on Jack Johnson,"judging by his form when I fought him,Jck Johnson could have handled Joe Louis and Billy conn simultaneously",Jess Willard.
"Jack Johnson?,he could do everything,and do evrything well,and he could go all night,Im glad I never had to fight him"Jack Dempsey.
" Jack Johnson was the greatest,and I tell you that honestly,because I hated Jack Johnson" Tom Sharkey
"Jack Johnson was a defensive genius" Mike Tyson.
"Jack JOhnson was thre greatest of all time" Jack Johnson.

[Nemesis]

Fighters on Jack Johnson,"judging by his form when I fought him,Jck Johnson could have handled Joe Louis and Billy conn simultaneously",Jess Willard.
"Jack Johnson?,he could do everything,and do evrything well,and he could go all night,Im glad I never had to fight him"Jack Dempsey.
" Jack Johnson was the greatest,and I tell you that honestly,because I hated Jack Johnson" Tom Sharkey
"Jack Johnson was a defensive genius" Mike Tyson.
"Jack JOhnson was thre greatest of all time" Jack Johnson.

that last one was the best, if he does say so himself

[josak]

"I'm going to make you my girlfriend... I wanna kiss them big rubber lips!"


Tyson to Ruddock

Actually what he said is...

"I'm gonna make you my girlfriend.."

"Your sweet... I'ma make you kiss me good with those big lips."

:D

[mcvey]

Actually what he said is...

"I'm gonna make you my girlfriend.."

"Your sweet... I'ma make you kiss me good with those big lips."

:D
Ruddocks eloquent reply,"you dont got no class"

[bigG]

im sure i heard one from mike dokes on being ko'd......'i woke up in the land of make believe and there was pink rats drinkin whiskey and smokin big ceegars.... '......

tex cobb to the referee in the holmes fight...'hey man, your white, cant you do somethin bout this...'

cobb to holmes at the final bell..'lets party'.....


for sheer atavistic savagery, and bearing in mind he never knew the extent of his opponents injurys, nigel benn getting interviewed in the ring after the mclelland fight takes some beating......'no, you listen to me...he was brought over here to bash me up....now look at 'im.....who is he??.....'

benn also on mclelland..'why should i be scared of him...iv had more knockouts than he's had fights'

[thunder06]

No way. Marciano would lose.

ok. thanks for clarifying.

[karmazon]

I was doing my sit-ups, 2,500 a day with my 20 pound weights and one day I couldn't move any more. I asked the doctor 'what's wrong?' and he said 'believe it or not your back is broken slightly

Tyson

[Ramon Rojo]

Muhammad Ali to Howard Cosell (talking about his wig):

"I'm gonna let everybody know that that thing you got on your head is a phony, and it comes from the tail of a pony!"