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Posted: 31 May 2006, 07:53
by -KOKid-
Willie Pep delivered a classic once:
"I've been married six times and all my wives were great housekeepers.
After every divorce they each kept the house."
-KOKid-
Posted: 31 May 2006, 08:24
by sockdolager
Cosell- "there are 10 reporters at ringside and 9 of them pick you to lose. What do you have to say to that?"
Bassillio- "9 of em are wrong."
Posted: 01 Jun 2006, 07:59
by Flump
Ingemar Johanssen gave a radio interview before his fight with Brian London saying that his sister could beat London.
At the end of the fight with Johanssen laying on the floor after suffering a heavy knockdown London leant over him and shouted "You should have brought your feckin sister!"
Posted: 01 Jun 2006, 13:17
by Jaclem
... a post script to that johannssen/london fight :
at that time a fighter could be saved by the bell.... count stopped when bell rang. ingo was on the canvas and out, and he won the fight by a decision. a newspaper printed the photo of ingo lying there, and the headline said "WAKE UP INGO....YOU WON!!!"
Posted: 01 Jun 2006, 13:19
by BoxBuzz
Jaclem wrote:... a post script to that johannssen/london fight :
at that time a fighter could be saved by the bell.... count stopped when bell rang. ingo was on the canvas and out, and he won the fight by a decision. a newspaper printed the photo of ingo lying there, and the headline said "WAKE UP INGO....YOU WON!!!"
What I would give for a copy of that front page. Even if it was just a copy or something I could print fromt the internet I would have it framed.
Cobb vs Shavers
Posted: 19 Nov 2006, 15:38
by tagjohnson
Tex Cobb provided good quotes even when they weren't his. During his fight with Earnie Shavers, comentator Don Dunphy kept refering to them (in very politicaly correct fashion) as "the fighter with the mustache and the fighter with the shaved head." Color comentator Ken Norton kept correcting him by saying "the white guy and the black guy."
Posted: 24 Nov 2006, 00:01
by cubedrum
"Women mean more to me than anything else on earth. If I can't see 'em I can't love 'em , so I'm hanging up my gloves." - Harry Greb upon retiring
"My toughest fight was with my first wife." - Muhammad Ali
"There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance." - George Foreman
One of my favorites.....
“Do you have any more excuses tonight Roy?” – Antonio Tarver, after receiving ring instructions at the beginning of his second fight with Roy Jones.
Re: Cobb vs Shavers
Posted: 24 Nov 2006, 00:09
by pundit
My fav:
Jack Dempsey in Max Baer's corner after round 1 of Baer's fight vs. Joe Louis (1935): "You're doing great, kid, he's not hitting you".
Max: "Then you better watch out for the ref, because someone in there is hitting the hell out of me".
Posted: 24 Nov 2006, 03:28
by Jaclem
...sometimes when joe louis was asked who hit him the hardest he said "The IRS."
Foreman vs Norton
Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 19:08
by tagjohnson
Just in case anyone thought Ali's ego was an act. After the first round of the Foreman/Norton fight, a ringside Ali was asked his opinion of the fight. Ali bragged that Ken was a great fighter since he had gone 24 rounds with him (Ali) and picked Norton to win. And further said "George Foreman will not destroy Ken Norton!" PS In his modestly titled autobiography "The Greatest" Ali said the Ken would have won if he had known that the victor was getting a shot at him (Ali).
Posted: 13 Jan 2007, 20:33
by ringsider
"If it ain't broke, then you ain't hitting it hard enough."
Jimmy"Buzz Saw" Busch 1902 Bantamweight contender
Dempsey vs Firpo
Posted: 06 May 2007, 18:50
by tagjohnson
I heard a couple of cracks about the Dempsey/Firpo fight. Don't know from who. "If the fight had been on a barge Firpo would have been champ because Dempsey would have drowned." "They should have sold ads on the soles of Firpo's shoes."
Posted: 08 May 2007, 04:34
by 'Rocket'Rigby
Some of my favourites:
"In the ring I never really knew fear" - Rocky Marciano
"Rocky didn't really know much about the boxing book but it wasn't a book he hit me with, it was a whole library of bonecrushers" - Joe Louis
"He (Marciano) fights like a bull with gloves on" - Archie Moore
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights" - Muhammad Ali
Posted: 10 May 2007, 08:20
by granberry
Expug wrote:Ron Standers wife after Stander was thrashed by Joe Frazier: "Ron fighting Joe is like putting a Volkswagon in the Indy 500".
Sounds like a wife he should have gotten rid of.
Posted: 10 May 2007, 08:23
by granberry
'Rocket'Rigby wrote:
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights" - Muhammad Ali
Sorry, Rigby
but Ali didn't talk like that.
You are quoting a manufactured "quote" made up by an Ali parasite like Thomas Hauser.
Posted: 10 May 2007, 08:32
by granberry
'Rocket'Rigby wrote:
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights" - Muhammad Ali
Here is what would be a true quote on that subject:
"The fight is won when Doug Jones beats the hell out of me and I am given a phony decision, when Jimmy Young gives me a boxing lesson for fifteen rounds and I am given a phony decision, when mediocrity Ken Norton causes me to struggle with him for 49 rounds while I am handed gift decisions, when I lose my title to a novice who had only 7 professional fights and the sycophant "news" media still calls me the 'greatest of all time,' when the media suppresses the fact that Joe Frazier beat me thoroughly and knocked me flat on my back, etc etc etc" - Muhammad Ali
Posted: 10 May 2007, 08:53
by granberry
Ali after the Jimmy Young fight:
"Howard, he hits better than I was told. I've got a broken eardrum."
Posted: 13 May 2007, 04:58
by m1kee50
so as not to annoy people, i will ask if this is true?
Ali to Frazier (in the fight) : They told me you was washed up champ...
Frazier to Ali (as he hits him) : They lied, champ! they lied!
Posted: 14 May 2007, 01:48
by generic screen name
Mikee wrote:so as not to annoy people, i will ask if this is true?
Ali to Frazier (in the fight) : They told me you was washed up champ...
Frazier to Ali (as he hits him) : They lied, champ! they lied!
I think I saw in an interview w/Joe Frazier that he said that it I'm not 100% positive. Ali was very known for talking during boxing matches, so I wouldn't doubt it.
One of my faves was someone asking why Willie Pep was broke and Pep responded: "Fast women, slow horses"
fast women and slow horses
Posted: 14 May 2007, 17:59
by tagjohnson
Fast women and slow horses eh? ROTFLMAO
Posted: 14 May 2007, 18:21
by HomicideHenry
"No matter the excuse or explaination, what someone does in the end is what they intended to do all along."
Cus D'Amato
Here it is
Posted: 10 Aug 2007, 12:34
by tagjohnson
I love this post
Posted: 12 Aug 2007, 07:02
by Neri
Just a modern day one which had me in stitches. Bernard Hopkins post fight interview talking about the body shot that KO'd De La Hoya.
Hopkins: The left hook was the one that really made him say "urgh". I heard the wind come out of him.
Merchant: It was sort of like chopped liver
Hopkins: It was chopped liver with a little bit of sauce on it...Hopkins sauce!
Re: fast women and slow horses
Posted: 13 Aug 2007, 12:43
by abosworth
Great thread!! Bump.... All the ones I knew have already been stated.
Re: fast women and slow horses
Posted: 13 Aug 2007, 12:43
by abosworth
abosworth wrote:Great thread!! Bump.... All the ones I knew have already been posted.