favourite boxing quotes

I'll moider da bum - when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

tony galento

Willie Pep was in New York when an old opponent from his early days approached him. The conversation went something like this :

"Hi, Willie, remember me? I fought you back in Hartford in 1940."

Pep looked him up and down for a moment, mused a second or two, and replied :

"Lie down. It'll make it easier."


Another Pep classic :

"How you doing, Willie?"

"Great, I've got a TV and a wife, and they're both working."


And now, to my idea of the master of them all, Randall 'Tex' Cobb :


“It’s one thing to call me white and slow. But to call me a fat, cowardly, cocaine-snorting, fight fixing cheat? Who are they calling fat?”

“I only had two fights as an amateur and lost both of them. Heck, I figure I didn’t have much of a future there. So I turned pro.”

“Hollywood’s a great place to vacation, but I wouldn’t want to live there. The people don’t have a concept of reality. Their reality is how good they pretend. "

“If you screw up in tennis, it’s 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it’s your ass, darlin’.”

“I love acting. It’s easy for me. All you do is look in the camera, smile, and lie with charm. I learned how to do that watching Don King promote fights.”

“Don King is one of the great humanitarians of our time. He has risen above that great term prejudice. He has screwed everybody he has ever been around. Hog, dog or frog, it don’t matter to Don. If you got a quarter, he wants the first twenty-six cents.”

“Don King is like everybody else in boxing. He’s a liar, a thief, a murderer and a racketeer. And a con man. But there ain’t anybody as bad as Bob Arum. That New York City Jew lawyer will make you hate city folks, Jews, and lawyers in the same day.”

“I find it a drag being sensitive twelve hours a day. I’ve got thirty minutes of sensitivity in me in the morning, thirty minutes in the evening and that’s it. I’m more at home kicking butt.”

“All I want to do is hit somebody in the mouth. It’s a whole lot easier than working for a living.”

“People always ask if success is going to change me, and I tell them I sure hope so.”

“I figure I’ve been hit in the head with everything ‘cept a ‘54 Pontiac.”

When asked before the fight if he was afraid of Larry Holmes, Tex replied, “What the hell is this guy going to do to me? Hit me? You think I got all this scar tissue running into parked cars?”

Tex explained away the loss to Holmes. " When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.”

Cobb was delighted that the brutality of the Holmes fight had driven Howard Cosell from the fight game for good. Cobb said it was “My gift to boxing.”

Jack LaMotta on SRR always makes me smile:

"I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes,"

Anothe tex cobb one - roghly :

Cobb: I was once knocked out by a mexican bantamweight
Reporter: Oh?
Cobb: well six of my mates were swinging him by the heels at the time.

Once, I was at a party...This was at a time when it seemed like I had everything. I was young. I was undefeated. I had money. I`d just moved into my own home. People at the party were laughing and having fun. And I missed my mother. I felt so lonely. I remember asking myself, `Why isn`t my mother here? Why are all these people around me? I don`t want these people around me.' I looked out the window and started crying."

—Oscar De La Hoya

"The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman."

—Howard Cosell

"McDonald looked impressive against Bozo"

- Spencer Oliver's summary of McDonnell vs Pozo

"I am going to PHYSICALLY shoot David Haye" - DelBoy Chisora

I think my favourite is Lennox Lewis to Hasim Rahman - "I am totally 100% hetrosexual. Bring your sister or any other girl and il prove it"

Paulie: "Hit the one in the middle!"

Obvious fictionial but still makes me chuckle when I watch Rocky IV

And:

(All emotional to Rocky before Drago fight) "If could step outside myself and be somebody else...Id wanna be you"

(30 seconds before first bell goes) "Rocko, you know what I said about wanting to be you...forget it"

" Introducing the reigning, defending, WBA Heavyweight Champion of the world..........Alexander Povetkin"

or

"Tyson Fury"

'the most honest conversation two men can have'
ernest hemingway.

OasisBFC wrote:'the most honest conversation two men can have'
ernest hemingway.

Great quote, love that!

Kell Brook - This fight's gonna be a war of nutrition

Wlad - Jean Marc Mormeck is gonna be like Mike Tyson.

Cobb's the king.

I always liked this line from Ali: "I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on."

James Toney: "I hit him with the right, and his legs turned to spaghetti - and then I was all over him like the sauce."

Mike Tyson: "After boxing I'll probably just fade away in to Bolivia."

Marlon Starling: "I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the money's right."

Ricky Hatton (when asked about his weight gain after a recent fight): "Well, I've had a lot on my plate lately!"

Larry Holmes (upon seeing Michael Spinks at the weigh in before their fight): "How is this skinny little boy going to hurt me? Surely not with his fists!?"

Mike Tyson, on writer Wallace Matthews: "[He] called me a 'naughty person' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse."

He didn't call Tyson a 'naughty person' think you guys know the real quote.

RANDY77 wrote:He didn't call Tyson a 'naughty person' think you guys know the real quote.

Never quite understand why that word is blocked out

The boxer James Butler is a convicted 'murderer'

The boxer Mike Tyson is is convicted 'naughty person'

Its not a swear word. Its not offensive. Its a crime (well in these Isles it is anyway)

No, No, not the face - Audley Harrison