In 1936, Eddie Simms after being tagged by a hard Joe Louis punch...Simms, stunned by a punch, turned to ref Arthur Donovan and
said "lets go for a walk on the roof."
Classic boxing quotes
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Below is one of the many ancedotes for Sam Langford that I have always enjoyed and found very comical when I first read it...
Sam Langford was a great fighter, but something less than a great second. Sam was seconding another fighter during a scrap held in the bull ring at Juarez one Sunday afternoon. When the fighter came back to the corner, his manager said:
“You’re getting’ hit with a left hook. Watch out for his hook punch. He’s hittin’ you all the time with a left hook.”
This infuriated Sam.
“What do you tell him that for?” he asked. “Doan tell he’s gittin’ hit wit’ a left hook and doan even know about it. Anytime a man gits hit wit’ a left hook and he doan know it, den he wants to git out of the boxin’ business and git himself a job on a farm.”
The fighter went out again. When he returned after the next round, his manager said: “Take it easy. You’re tired. You’re very tired.”
Again Sam blew up.
“What you tell him foh he’s tired?” Sam asked in disgust. “If he’s tired, doan HE know it?” The manager argued. Sam responded by chasing him out of the ring.
The fighter got back again after the next heat and found only Sam waiting for him.
Sam sponged him off but said nothing. He watched him awhile.
Finally the fighter asked:
“What should I hit him with Sam?”
Sam didn’t answer.
The fighter was getting anxious.
“Sam,” he pleaded, “will you tell me what to hit him with?”
“Yeah,” Sam retorted, “I’ll tell you what to hit him with. Sho I will.”
“Well,” said the fighter as the precious seconds ticked away, “what should I hit him with?”
“Hit him with SUMPIN, “ Sam said, “hit him with SUMPIN’!”
The Ring
March 1950
Pg. 25-21.
Sam Langford was a great fighter, but something less than a great second. Sam was seconding another fighter during a scrap held in the bull ring at Juarez one Sunday afternoon. When the fighter came back to the corner, his manager said:
“You’re getting’ hit with a left hook. Watch out for his hook punch. He’s hittin’ you all the time with a left hook.”
This infuriated Sam.
“What do you tell him that for?” he asked. “Doan tell he’s gittin’ hit wit’ a left hook and doan even know about it. Anytime a man gits hit wit’ a left hook and he doan know it, den he wants to git out of the boxin’ business and git himself a job on a farm.”
The fighter went out again. When he returned after the next round, his manager said: “Take it easy. You’re tired. You’re very tired.”
Again Sam blew up.
“What you tell him foh he’s tired?” Sam asked in disgust. “If he’s tired, doan HE know it?” The manager argued. Sam responded by chasing him out of the ring.
The fighter got back again after the next heat and found only Sam waiting for him.
Sam sponged him off but said nothing. He watched him awhile.
Finally the fighter asked:
“What should I hit him with Sam?”
Sam didn’t answer.
The fighter was getting anxious.
“Sam,” he pleaded, “will you tell me what to hit him with?”
“Yeah,” Sam retorted, “I’ll tell you what to hit him with. Sho I will.”
“Well,” said the fighter as the precious seconds ticked away, “what should I hit him with?”
“Hit him with SUMPIN, “ Sam said, “hit him with SUMPIN’!”
The Ring
March 1950
Pg. 25-21.
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Tony Danza
On the television show Taxi Tony Danza's character played a boxer. After being ko'd in two rounds during a fight one of his coworkers showed him an article where his opponent was saying it only went that long because he had had temperture of 102. Tony replied "That's bull! I can go two rounds with him any day of the week!"
Joe Louis was at a function somewhere and this female admirer kept pushing up against him and staring up into his face till eventually Louis turned to her and said...
"Honey if you go an move much closer to me we are gonna have to get married!".
Jerry Quarry after knocking out Jack Bodell in the 1st round in their bout in London was asked by a journalist if he had found Bodell awkward....
" Well he fell kinda awkwardly!"
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"Honey if you go an move much closer to me we are gonna have to get married!".
Jerry Quarry after knocking out Jack Bodell in the 1st round in their bout in London was asked by a journalist if he had found Bodell awkward....
" Well he fell kinda awkwardly!"
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BrocktonBlockbuster49
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one of my favorites that shows how hard joe louis hit.
he fought kingfish levinsky and in the 1st round louis hit him with a flurry and knocked him down and thats all louis remembers about the fight was he was in the corner looking at kingfish sitting on the canvas saying to the ref "dont let him hit me again, dont let him hit me again."
he fought kingfish levinsky and in the 1st round louis hit him with a flurry and knocked him down and thats all louis remembers about the fight was he was in the corner looking at kingfish sitting on the canvas saying to the ref "dont let him hit me again, dont let him hit me again."
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You guys have some good ones. Here are few more that I remember:
George Foreman while broadcasting a fight on HBO "This referee is the most important man in the ring...... except for the two fighters"
John Ruiz after losing to Roy Jones "This referee wouldn't let me hold and hit at the same time. I don't know what he was thinking".
Bert Cooper after giving Evander Holyfield a tougher fight than expected.
"I'm in the big time now. No more ESPN fights for me".
(Of course he had more fights on ESPN)
Hasim Rahman after watching his knockout punch against Lennox Lewis on replay "That punch should be rated R"
Larry Merchant on Fillipino Manny Pacqiuao "Perhaps the fact that the Phillipines were under Spain's rule a few hundred years ago is what drives Manny Pacquiao to be such a great fighter"
George Foreman while broadcasting a fight on HBO "This referee is the most important man in the ring...... except for the two fighters"
John Ruiz after losing to Roy Jones "This referee wouldn't let me hold and hit at the same time. I don't know what he was thinking".
Bert Cooper after giving Evander Holyfield a tougher fight than expected.
"I'm in the big time now. No more ESPN fights for me".
(Of course he had more fights on ESPN)
Hasim Rahman after watching his knockout punch against Lennox Lewis on replay "That punch should be rated R"
Larry Merchant on Fillipino Manny Pacqiuao "Perhaps the fact that the Phillipines were under Spain's rule a few hundred years ago is what drives Manny Pacquiao to be such a great fighter"
BBC anchorman: "and now over to the boxing where Harry Commentator is your carpenter"
Harry Carpenter: "Tate stares at Sullivan through blood spattered lips"
Sylvester Mittee British Champ: "There's a popular misconception that pugilists are monosyllabic buffoons, I intend to dispell that rumour"
Two Ton Tony Galenta upon hearing that his opponent admired poetry: "spring as sprung, da grass is rissed, oi wanda wior da boidis is"
Tommy Farr on his popularity "with my singing voice and a pound note I'll always get a pint"
Tex Cobb on boxing: "You get up run for 40 minutes go to a gym for an hour a day. Hell it beat's working for a living"
Harry Carpenter: "Tate stares at Sullivan through blood spattered lips"
Sylvester Mittee British Champ: "There's a popular misconception that pugilists are monosyllabic buffoons, I intend to dispell that rumour"
Two Ton Tony Galenta upon hearing that his opponent admired poetry: "spring as sprung, da grass is rissed, oi wanda wior da boidis is"
Tommy Farr on his popularity "with my singing voice and a pound note I'll always get a pint"
Tex Cobb on boxing: "You get up run for 40 minutes go to a gym for an hour a day. Hell it beat's working for a living"
Vinny Paz: "His legs turned to spagetthi and I was all over him like the sauce"
Alan Minter providing colour commentary after watching Danilo Cabrere give a spirited performance against McGuigan "What did you expect? He lives in a mud hut with his wife and kids, they bring him over here, put him up in a hotel with hot and cold running water, toilets and a colour tv. He's gonna want some that for him and his family!" They never used Minter again!!!
Alan Minter providing colour commentary after watching Danilo Cabrere give a spirited performance against McGuigan "What did you expect? He lives in a mud hut with his wife and kids, they bring him over here, put him up in a hotel with hot and cold running water, toilets and a colour tv. He's gonna want some that for him and his family!" They never used Minter again!!!
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Two Ton Tony Galanteno while being interviewed before the Louis bout was asked by a imaginative reporter what he thought about Shakespeare...
" Never heard of him!... must be one of those Europeon guys eh!... dey can't take it like I give it!... I'll muider da bum!".
Harry Carpenter at ringside for the 2nd Colin Jones vs Milton Mccrory fight...
" And it is so excruciatingly hot here at ringside that just about everyone has taken their tops off!...... ......except for the women that is!....."
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" Never heard of him!... must be one of those Europeon guys eh!... dey can't take it like I give it!... I'll muider da bum!".
Harry Carpenter at ringside for the 2nd Colin Jones vs Milton Mccrory fight...
" And it is so excruciatingly hot here at ringside that just about everyone has taken their tops off!...... ......except for the women that is!....."
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Tex Cobb and Earnie Shavers
Randall seems to be well represented but here goes another. During his fight with Tex the ref warned Earnie Shavers about holding and hitting. Tex reportedly told the ref "Leave that man alone he's got work to do."
After dropping Ron Lyle during their fight the hometown referee took his sweet time about starting the count. Earnie's pastor yelled "The son of a bitch is robbing us!"
After dropping Ron Lyle during their fight the hometown referee took his sweet time about starting the count. Earnie's pastor yelled "The son of a bitch is robbing us!"
At the start of the Gary Mason vs Donny Long fight Harry Carpenter say of Long...
" and Long calls himself 'the master of disaster' although looking at his record lately its not clear if its disaster given or disaster suffered!....."
about 50 seconds later Mason lays Long out with a right.... and Harry says...
" ....and he's got him with the right!... first round!... he's not getting up from that!... ...and thats a big disaster for the master of disaster!!!!...."
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" and Long calls himself 'the master of disaster' although looking at his record lately its not clear if its disaster given or disaster suffered!....."
about 50 seconds later Mason lays Long out with a right.... and Harry says...
" ....and he's got him with the right!... first round!... he's not getting up from that!... ...and thats a big disaster for the master of disaster!!!!...."
.....class Harry!...
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Maxie Rosenboom in a radio interview during his title reign.
Interviewer: "Max, do you hate your opponents?"
Max: "Yeah, I hate 'em."
Interviewer: "Why do you hate them?"
Max: "Well they're hitting me aren't they?"
Interviewer: "Then why do you hug them after the fight?"
Max: "Well, they stopped hittin me didn't they?"
Max Baer's cornerman to Max during his fight with Joe Louis: "He hasn't laid a glove on ya."
Max: "Then you better watch that ref, cuz someone's beatin the hell outta me."
Interviewer: "Max, do you hate your opponents?"
Max: "Yeah, I hate 'em."
Interviewer: "Why do you hate them?"
Max: "Well they're hitting me aren't they?"
Interviewer: "Then why do you hug them after the fight?"
Max: "Well, they stopped hittin me didn't they?"
Max Baer's cornerman to Max during his fight with Joe Louis: "He hasn't laid a glove on ya."
Max: "Then you better watch that ref, cuz someone's beatin the hell outta me."
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Rory McCloskey
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In between round 7-8. Jim Braddock VS. Joe Gould. 2 best friends in the world consider their options...
Joe- Jimmy,man i gotta stop this fight you can barely see and hes whipping you your face is all cut up..
Jimmy- Do it Joe, and ill never talk to you again
of course the warrior went out to answer the bell for the 8th round and went out like a champion. giving all he had to give. noone could say that he coulda done much better, he had arthritis in his right hand and he was old and worn down.
Joe- Jimmy,man i gotta stop this fight you can barely see and hes whipping you your face is all cut up..
Jimmy- Do it Joe, and ill never talk to you again
of course the warrior went out to answer the bell for the 8th round and went out like a champion. giving all he had to give. noone could say that he coulda done much better, he had arthritis in his right hand and he was old and worn down.
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Women's gestures
After ko'ing Tyrell Biggs, Mike Tyson said during the ringside interview "He was making women's gestures in there, every time I'd hit him he'd go "ooh, ooh"."
Max Baer's cornerman to Max during his fight with Joe Louis: "He hasn't laid a glove on ya."
Max: "Then you better watch that ref, cuz someone's beatin the hell outta me."
This is probably my all time favorite boxing quote. Another one was during the an interview with a reporter, Joe Louis was informed that Lou Nova was planning to fight dirty if he had to.
"Naw, he aint gonna do that." Joe replied.
"Why not the reporter?" asked.
Joe says, "Cause he aint crazy."
Also another gem by Randell Tex Cobb.
"If there is a man alive that hits harder than Shavers...shoot him."
Max: "Then you better watch that ref, cuz someone's beatin the hell outta me."
This is probably my all time favorite boxing quote. Another one was during the an interview with a reporter, Joe Louis was informed that Lou Nova was planning to fight dirty if he had to.
"Naw, he aint gonna do that." Joe replied.
"Why not the reporter?" asked.
Joe says, "Cause he aint crazy."
Also another gem by Randell Tex Cobb.
"If there is a man alive that hits harder than Shavers...shoot him."
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BrocktonBlockbuster49
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Here are some of my favorites
Upon asked why he attempted so many body shots instead of headshots - "Cause the body aint got no eyes" -the one and only Sam Langford.
If bullshit was poetry, Muhammad Ali’s name would be Shakespeare.
Joe Frazier
‘Calling Michael Grant’s chin glass is an insult to Glass’.
Larry Merchant
2. More of a conversation than a quote, but this is from one of my books; Joe Louis - The Great Black Hope (Richard Bak):
Eddie "One-Round" Green, who had just been asked by his manager to imagine a fight with the Brown Bomber:
MANAGER: It's the first round. Joe Louis climbs into the ring like a tiger. What do you do?
GREEN: I climbs out of the ring like another tiger.
MANAGER: Any other man would run. But you don't.
GREEN: What's the matter? Am I glued to the floor?
MANAGER: It's the fifteenth round, and you're crawling around the ring on your hands and knees. What are you doing on your hands and knees?
GREEN: Looking for a trap door.
MANAGER: Joe Louis is covered with blood. Your nose is broken. Both your eyes are black, and your jaw is cracked. Now is the time to see what you're made of.
GREEN: What's he gonna do? Turn me inside out?
MANAGER: The crowd is yelling to the referee, "Stop it. Stop it." And what do you say?
GREEN: Okay with me.
MANAGER: I can't stand to see you take any more punishment, so what do I do?
GREEN: You close your eyes?
MANAGER: No, I throw in the towel, and they give the fight to Louis.
GREEN: Let him have it; I don't want it.
MANAGER: But you fought so well that they give you a reward.
GREEN: Oh yeah? What do they give me?
MANAGER: They give you a return fight with Joe Louis.
GREEN: Oh no they don't.
MANAGER: Oh yes they do.
GREEN: Oh no they don't.
my favorite : Ali: Joe, you really think you coulda whupped me?
Louis: When I had the title I went on what they called the Bum-of-the-Month tour.
Ali: Ya mean I'm a bum?
Louis: You woulda been on the tour.
"If I said I could beat Patterson, you'd think I was bragging. If I said I couldn't, I'd be lying." - Rocky marciano to a group of high school kids about then champ Floyd Patterson
Rocky always felt he could beat whoever he fought.
"He goes in for a fight the way I go in for a beer."Charlie Goldman
Upon asked why he attempted so many body shots instead of headshots - "Cause the body aint got no eyes" -the one and only Sam Langford.
If bullshit was poetry, Muhammad Ali’s name would be Shakespeare.
Joe Frazier
‘Calling Michael Grant’s chin glass is an insult to Glass’.
Larry Merchant
2. More of a conversation than a quote, but this is from one of my books; Joe Louis - The Great Black Hope (Richard Bak):
Eddie "One-Round" Green, who had just been asked by his manager to imagine a fight with the Brown Bomber:
MANAGER: It's the first round. Joe Louis climbs into the ring like a tiger. What do you do?
GREEN: I climbs out of the ring like another tiger.
MANAGER: Any other man would run. But you don't.
GREEN: What's the matter? Am I glued to the floor?
MANAGER: It's the fifteenth round, and you're crawling around the ring on your hands and knees. What are you doing on your hands and knees?
GREEN: Looking for a trap door.
MANAGER: Joe Louis is covered with blood. Your nose is broken. Both your eyes are black, and your jaw is cracked. Now is the time to see what you're made of.
GREEN: What's he gonna do? Turn me inside out?
MANAGER: The crowd is yelling to the referee, "Stop it. Stop it." And what do you say?
GREEN: Okay with me.
MANAGER: I can't stand to see you take any more punishment, so what do I do?
GREEN: You close your eyes?
MANAGER: No, I throw in the towel, and they give the fight to Louis.
GREEN: Let him have it; I don't want it.
MANAGER: But you fought so well that they give you a reward.
GREEN: Oh yeah? What do they give me?
MANAGER: They give you a return fight with Joe Louis.
GREEN: Oh no they don't.
MANAGER: Oh yes they do.
GREEN: Oh no they don't.
my favorite : Ali: Joe, you really think you coulda whupped me?
Louis: When I had the title I went on what they called the Bum-of-the-Month tour.
Ali: Ya mean I'm a bum?
Louis: You woulda been on the tour.
"If I said I could beat Patterson, you'd think I was bragging. If I said I couldn't, I'd be lying." - Rocky marciano to a group of high school kids about then champ Floyd Patterson
Rocky always felt he could beat whoever he fought.
"He goes in for a fight the way I go in for a beer."Charlie Goldman
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Henry Cooper
An interview with Howard Cosell before the first Ali fight (I believe) went something like this.
Cosell "Henry, they say you're washed up, that you don't stand a chance, what do you say"?
Coop "Well you can go f... yourself!"
Cosell "No Henry! I'm not saying it. They are, other people!"
Coop "Well they can go f... themselves!"
Cosell "Henry, they say you're washed up, that you don't stand a chance, what do you say"?
Coop "Well you can go f... yourself!"
Cosell "No Henry! I'm not saying it. They are, other people!"
Coop "Well they can go f... themselves!"
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Tycoon2002
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Here are a load of quotes ive collected - Most I found on boxingnews.com
Randall Tex Cobb being asked for a possible rematch against Larry Holmes after the one sided beating. 'I dont think his hands can take the abuse'
If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am.
Marvelous Marvin Hagler
On Billy Conn, who threatened to use his mobility against the world champion -He can run, but he can't hide.
Joe Louis (1941)
Earnie Shavers hit me, man, and knocked me face down on the canvas. I was in the land of make believe. I heard saxophones, trombones. I saw little blue rats, and they were all smoking cigars and drinking whisky.
James 'Quick' Tillis
George Chuvalo’s best punch is a left cheek to the right glove.
Larry Merchant
Lets get it on!
Mills Lane
You have both been champions before, so i expect you to conduct yourself AS champions.
Richard Steele at the start of the Botha - Tyson fight.
My 3 best punches are the Rabbit punches, the choke hold and the head butt.
Chuck Wepner
“"My face is a powerful thing."
--Iran Barkley after being told by Wally Matthews that his face was busted up just before landing his Hail Mary shot on Thomas Hearns.
Mitch "Blood" Green, when asked "how long do you think King and Tyson will last together?", answered "Not long, because i'm gonna kill both of them!!!"
Larry Holmes doesn't hit as hard as Earnie Shavers. Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him.
Randall Tex'Cobb
On hitting Johnny Bumphus while he was still rising from his stool - The bell went ding and I went dong.
Loyd Honeyghan
My girlfriend boos when we make love because she knows it turns me on.
Hector Comacho (1989)
He's too short, hes to slow, he cant take a punch, he dont hit hard and he hasnt got the footwork.
Muhammad Ali talking about Floyd Patterson
Randall 'Tex' Cobb - "Larry Holmes didn't beat me he just won the first 15 rounds"
Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious."
Alan Minter
Another Cobb-ism: against Larry Holmes, at one point the action ws stopped so the ref could check on Tex. He asked him, "Do you see me?" Cobb replies, "Yeah. You're white. It's the black guy I'm worried about."
He hits like a @#%$ mule kick, pardon my french" Mike Tyson Razor Ruddock
"Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle". – Tex cobb
On choosing a referee for his fight against Floyd Patterson - It don't matter as long as he can count up to ten.
Sonny Liston
I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.
Randall Tex' Cobb
Ali is on a plane after a victory and he doesnt want to put on his seatbelt, the stewardist walks up to him and says, "Hey champ, you'll need to put your selt belt on."
Ali replied, "What? Superman dont need a seatbelt!"
The Stewardist said back, "Superman dont need a plane."
Randal tex cobb on being asked his best punch –I don't know, I've never hit myself.
Herol Graham has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever got knocked out by a poem.
Eddie Shaw
Jake LaMotta and I fought six times. We almost got married.
Sugar Ray Robinson
On being asked for a drug test urine sample immediately after winning a world title - It's marvellous. You win the championship of the world and the first thing they say to you is 'Piss off!'
Jim Watt
Rocky Marciano didn't know enough boxing to know what a feint was. He never tried to out-guess you. He just kept trying to knock your brains out.
Archie Moore
I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes.
Jake LaMotta
I only have to read Muhammad Alis' name and my nose starts to bleed again.
Chuck Wepner
If bullshit was poetry, Muhammad Ali’s name would be Shakespeare.
Joe Frazier
Go get him! The guys shot!! Go get him!! YOU DON’T WANNA WIN YOU JUST WANNA BE A fornicating BUM ALL YOUR LIFE! GET HIM!
Angelo Dundee screaming at Quick Tillis to fight against Mike Weaver
From slaveship to championship.
Don King organizing the rumble in the jungle in Zaire, Africa.
People would rather watch Muhammad Ali watch Larry Holmes fight then watch Larry Holmes fight.
Don King
Philadelphia is the only place where you see two winos in a street fight jabbing
Randall Tex Cobb
I’m gonna knock out the big lipped freak and make him my girlfriend
Mike Tyson talking about Razor Rudduck.
‘Calling Michael Grant’s chin glass is an insult to Glass’.
Larry Merchant
Mike Weaver replying to Jesse Jackson’s critisims when he took off the South Africa to fight Coetzee during the apartheid.
‘ Jesse Jackson don’t pay my bills’
After all the fighters I made rich, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the courtesy to say ‘thanks’.
Don King
Tex Cobb Quotes
Cobb is finishing a speech in a hall with fighters like Tyson, Foreman, Holmes, Norton, Ali, Frazier, Hagler, Barkley etc in attendance.
Cobb ends his speech saying 'And i am truly honoured to be in a room with some of the baddest n***ers around!'
Renaldo Snipes then jumps out and says 'Erm Tex i didnt drive all the way here for you to offend me like that
Cobb replied 'Its alright Mr Snipes, i wasnt even talking about you'
Don King is everybody else in boxing. Hes a liar, a thief, a murderer, a racketeer and a con man. But there aint nobody as bad as Bob Arum. That new york city jew lawyer will make you hate city folks, Jews and lawyers all in the same day.
They're probably the only individuals in our universe who actually have less constructive jobs than I do. I dont do nothing but hit people and you mothers dont do nothing but talk about what I do.
-On Sports writers
I'd love to fight Gerry Cooney. But I have my price: 25 cents and a loose woman.
When I got up I stuck to my game plan. Stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.
- Cobb being floored by Eddie Gregg
He'll fight any white man, black man, brown man or man of any other colour. He especially likes it when they're yellow and having physical or mental breakdowns when they step into the ring.
-Cobb talking about himself in third person.
This fight will be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. Ive been sober for six weeks and that makes me vicious.
-On fighting Mike Dokes.
Hard? Hell no it wasnt hard. Anyody who can live with the same woman for 4 months can act.
-On acting
Randall Tex Cobb being asked for a possible rematch against Larry Holmes after the one sided beating. 'I dont think his hands can take the abuse'
If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am.
Marvelous Marvin Hagler
On Billy Conn, who threatened to use his mobility against the world champion -He can run, but he can't hide.
Joe Louis (1941)
Earnie Shavers hit me, man, and knocked me face down on the canvas. I was in the land of make believe. I heard saxophones, trombones. I saw little blue rats, and they were all smoking cigars and drinking whisky.
James 'Quick' Tillis
George Chuvalo’s best punch is a left cheek to the right glove.
Larry Merchant
Lets get it on!
Mills Lane
You have both been champions before, so i expect you to conduct yourself AS champions.
Richard Steele at the start of the Botha - Tyson fight.
My 3 best punches are the Rabbit punches, the choke hold and the head butt.
Chuck Wepner
“"My face is a powerful thing."
--Iran Barkley after being told by Wally Matthews that his face was busted up just before landing his Hail Mary shot on Thomas Hearns.
Mitch "Blood" Green, when asked "how long do you think King and Tyson will last together?", answered "Not long, because i'm gonna kill both of them!!!"
Larry Holmes doesn't hit as hard as Earnie Shavers. Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him.
Randall Tex'Cobb
On hitting Johnny Bumphus while he was still rising from his stool - The bell went ding and I went dong.
Loyd Honeyghan
My girlfriend boos when we make love because she knows it turns me on.
Hector Comacho (1989)
He's too short, hes to slow, he cant take a punch, he dont hit hard and he hasnt got the footwork.
Muhammad Ali talking about Floyd Patterson
Randall 'Tex' Cobb - "Larry Holmes didn't beat me he just won the first 15 rounds"
Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious."
Alan Minter
Another Cobb-ism: against Larry Holmes, at one point the action ws stopped so the ref could check on Tex. He asked him, "Do you see me?" Cobb replies, "Yeah. You're white. It's the black guy I'm worried about."
He hits like a @#%$ mule kick, pardon my french" Mike Tyson Razor Ruddock
"Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle". – Tex cobb
On choosing a referee for his fight against Floyd Patterson - It don't matter as long as he can count up to ten.
Sonny Liston
I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.
Randall Tex' Cobb
Ali is on a plane after a victory and he doesnt want to put on his seatbelt, the stewardist walks up to him and says, "Hey champ, you'll need to put your selt belt on."
Ali replied, "What? Superman dont need a seatbelt!"
The Stewardist said back, "Superman dont need a plane."
Randal tex cobb on being asked his best punch –I don't know, I've never hit myself.
Herol Graham has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever got knocked out by a poem.
Eddie Shaw
Jake LaMotta and I fought six times. We almost got married.
Sugar Ray Robinson
On being asked for a drug test urine sample immediately after winning a world title - It's marvellous. You win the championship of the world and the first thing they say to you is 'Piss off!'
Jim Watt
Rocky Marciano didn't know enough boxing to know what a feint was. He never tried to out-guess you. He just kept trying to knock your brains out.
Archie Moore
I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes.
Jake LaMotta
I only have to read Muhammad Alis' name and my nose starts to bleed again.
Chuck Wepner
If bullshit was poetry, Muhammad Ali’s name would be Shakespeare.
Joe Frazier
Go get him! The guys shot!! Go get him!! YOU DON’T WANNA WIN YOU JUST WANNA BE A fornicating BUM ALL YOUR LIFE! GET HIM!
Angelo Dundee screaming at Quick Tillis to fight against Mike Weaver
From slaveship to championship.
Don King organizing the rumble in the jungle in Zaire, Africa.
People would rather watch Muhammad Ali watch Larry Holmes fight then watch Larry Holmes fight.
Don King
Philadelphia is the only place where you see two winos in a street fight jabbing
Randall Tex Cobb
I’m gonna knock out the big lipped freak and make him my girlfriend
Mike Tyson talking about Razor Rudduck.
‘Calling Michael Grant’s chin glass is an insult to Glass’.
Larry Merchant
Mike Weaver replying to Jesse Jackson’s critisims when he took off the South Africa to fight Coetzee during the apartheid.
‘ Jesse Jackson don’t pay my bills’
After all the fighters I made rich, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the courtesy to say ‘thanks’.
Don King
Tex Cobb Quotes
Cobb is finishing a speech in a hall with fighters like Tyson, Foreman, Holmes, Norton, Ali, Frazier, Hagler, Barkley etc in attendance.
Cobb ends his speech saying 'And i am truly honoured to be in a room with some of the baddest n***ers around!'
Renaldo Snipes then jumps out and says 'Erm Tex i didnt drive all the way here for you to offend me like that
Cobb replied 'Its alright Mr Snipes, i wasnt even talking about you'
Don King is everybody else in boxing. Hes a liar, a thief, a murderer, a racketeer and a con man. But there aint nobody as bad as Bob Arum. That new york city jew lawyer will make you hate city folks, Jews and lawyers all in the same day.
They're probably the only individuals in our universe who actually have less constructive jobs than I do. I dont do nothing but hit people and you mothers dont do nothing but talk about what I do.
-On Sports writers
I'd love to fight Gerry Cooney. But I have my price: 25 cents and a loose woman.
When I got up I stuck to my game plan. Stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.
- Cobb being floored by Eddie Gregg
He'll fight any white man, black man, brown man or man of any other colour. He especially likes it when they're yellow and having physical or mental breakdowns when they step into the ring.
-Cobb talking about himself in third person.
This fight will be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. Ive been sober for six weeks and that makes me vicious.
-On fighting Mike Dokes.
Hard? Hell no it wasnt hard. Anyody who can live with the same woman for 4 months can act.
-On acting