"I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing,
if the price is right."
-- Marlon Starling
"This boxer is doing what is expected of him
... bleeding from his nose."
-- broadcaster Harry Carpenter
"I was in a no-win situation
... so I'm glad I won."
-- Frank Bruno
"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music
and the dancers hit each other."
-- Jack Handy
"I've got it made. I've got a wife, and a TV set,
and they're both working."
-- Willie Pep
"Sure, as long as he ties a 56-pound weight to each leg."
-- Brian London,
asked if he would consider fighting Muhammad Ali again.
"Screw things up in tennis and it's 15-love.
Screw things up in boxing, it's your ass."
-- Randall "Tex" Cobb
"I was called 'Rembrandt' Hope during my boxing days
because I spent so much time on the canvas."
-- comedian Bob Hope
"If you think (Iran) Barkley was mad after the fight, wait till he finds out how many people
are taking part of his purse."
-- promoter Bob Arum
"My main objective is to be professional, but to kill him."
-- Mike Tyson, on Lennox Lewis
"Howard Cosell was considering a boxing career,
but they couldn't find a mouthpiece that was big enough."
-- Muhammad Ali
"He looks up through blood-smeared lips."
-- broadcaster Harry Carpenter
"The referee is the most-important man in the ring, besides the two fighters."
-- George Foreman
"Superman don't need no plane."
-- Flight attendant, after Muhammad Ali
told her, "Superman don't need no seat belt"
"I'm gonna eat every flavor at Baskin-Robbins,
so when he's pushin' me, he'll be pushing a whole franchise."
-- George Foreman
"Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning."
-- Jack Dempsey, challenged by a drunk
"Honey, I forgot to duck."
-- Jack Dempsey to his wife
after losing the heavyweight title
"When I looked up, the count was five and I said, 'Damn, what happened
to one through four?"
-- Buster Mathis Jr., after being
KO'd by Mike Tyson
"I fought Sugar Ray so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic."
-- Jake LaMotta
"Everybody's got plans until they get hit."
-- Mike Tyson
"Yeah, I"m scared ...I'm scared I might kill Schmeling"
-- Joe Louis"
"Joe Frazier's so ugly, he should donate his face
to the U.S. Bureau of Wildlife."
-- Muhammad Ali
"It's just a job.Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand
... I beat people up."
-- Muhammad Ali
"You've got a guy who wants to eat your children fighting a guy
who wants to stop you from having any."
-- sports talk host Jim Rome on Tyson-Golota
"You always say, 'I'll quit when I start to slide.'
Then you wake up one morning and realize you done slid."
-- Sugar Ray Robinson"
"Sure, the fight was fixed. I fixed it with my right hand."
-- George Foreman,
after his 1994 KO of Michael Moorer
"George Foreman can knock down an oak tree
... but oak trees don't move."
-- Angelo Dundee
"I want to keep fighting because it's the only thing that keeps me
out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet."
-- George Foreman
"Bob Arum is one of the worst people
in the western hemisphere. I don't know the eastern hemisphere very well,
but I suspect he'd be one of the worst people there, too."
-- Trainer Cus D'Amato
"Frank Bruno figures to be the biggest British disaster since the Titanic."
-- columnist Jim Murray,
on the Tyson-Bruno fight
"Mike's like a Beethoven or a Gershwin. You go for the quality
of the performance,not for the longevity."
-- Jose Torres, on the brevity
of Tyson's early fights
"He has a better chance of starring in the next Wonder-bra commercial
than of winning the heavyweight championship."
-- columnist Richard Williams,
on Buster Mathis Jr.
"Congratulations! Whose baby is it?"
-- Joe Frazier, after Ken Norton
announced that his wife just had a baby
"Frank Bruno has a chin of pure Waterford crystal.
It gives rise to the adage, "People with glass jaws shouldn't throw punches."
-- Columnist Jim Murray
"I can close any cut in the world in 50 seconds,
as long as it ain't a total beheading."
-- Cutman Adolph Ritacco
"Sports is business. It's nothing new.
Kid Cain would not have put his title on the line
against Boy Able if the money hadn't been right."
-- Columnist Frank Keating
"Ain't never hoid of him. Must be one of them foreign heavyweights.
They're all lousy. Sure as hell, I'll moider da bum."
-- "Two-Ton" Tony Galento on Shakespeare
"Two Ton" Tony Galento
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