Boxing Quotes

[Flump]

You should have brought your f'ing sister - Brian London to Ingemar Johanssen after flooring him. Ingo had given an interview saying his sister could beat London.

Don't matter as long as he can count to ten - Sonny Liston on whether he had a preference of referee for his first fight with Patterson.

If I'd been in shape they'd be taking him to the morgue not the hospital - Roberto Duran after defeating Ray Lampkin

[Alguiffer]

GGG:
"This is serious business"
"Big drama show"

[Expug]

Bob Costas told Don King what King said was bull sh.t. King said “ ya need bullsh.t to grow roses.

The flight attendant told Ali to buckle his seat belt for take off. Ali said “ Superman don’t need a seat belt”. The flight attendant said “ Superman don’t need an airplane either”.

[Caractacus]

" why don't you quit loving me Mr. Jeff ?"
-Jack Johnson
(whilst in the clinches with Jim J. Jeffries
July.4.1910 Reno Nevada)

[Caractacus]

"Im a whore that sells his blood instead of his ass"

-Randall Tex Cobb

[Caractacus]

"You see Sam, I'll always survive because I got just the
right combination of Wit, Grit and Bullsh*t "
-Don King -(1977)

to boxing writer Sam Toperoff talking about the
scandal of the Heavyweight tournament. aboard an aircraft

[Expug]

King had a bunch.
Bob Costas told King he was full of bullshit.
King told him “ you need bullshit to grow roses”

[gilgamesh]

"HEY! IF YOU GUYS DON'T SHUT UP I'M GONNA END THIS INTERVIEW!"

- Larry Merchant, getting mad at Lamon Brewster's hangers on who wouldn't stop shouting as he was trying to interview Lamon.

"If I was 50 years younger I'd kick your ass!"

- Larry Merchant, directed at Floyd after Floyd had insulted his integrity as a broadcast journalist. He later admitted he knew he could never have kicked Floyd's ass, but he was mad enough in that moment that he probably would've tried it as a younger man.

"Excuse me folks, I'm not used to using any strong arm tactics to get my interviews in"

- Larry Merchant, after violently shoving a fan that had interrupted his interview after I believe the Zaragoza-McCullough fight

[gilgamesh]

In the above mentioned ones, it's not so much the quote as it is the circumstance in which the quote happened

[Expug]

I believe it was Merchant who, when he was a sports columnist, wrote after Liston won the title said something like “ when he returns home, the people can throw torn up arrest warrants for confetti”.
Some bullshit like that. Liston wasn’t amused.

[Caractacus]

"I'd like being a doctor or a lawyer".
"The doctor and the lawyer still get paid, no matter what.
A doctor can kill you, he still gets paid.
A lawyer can let you get put in jail for 20 years,
he still gets paid,
There's no way these guys can lose."

-Sonny Liston-
1966, when asked if he would "Do it all over again" after his boxing license had been revoked
as a result of Lewiston Maine.