Classic boxing quotes

abosworth · Post by **abosworth** » 13 Aug 2007, 12:50

Joe Frazier, talking to Ken Norton at a social gathering. Frazier: "Hey man, what you been doing?"; Norton: "My wife just had a baby."; Frazier: "Congratulations! Whose baby is it?"

abosworth · Post by **abosworth** » 13 Aug 2007, 12:51

Muhammad Ali: "I'm so mean I make medicine sick."

squarering · Post by **squarering** » 13 Aug 2007, 22:23

From a book about Joe Louis.. Chappie Blackburn told Joe his breathing was so bad that he would not be able to climb up in the corner between rounds, Joe replied, "don't worry Chappie, you'll only have to come up once". With that Joe ran off his longest string of 1st round KO's.

abosworth · Post by **abosworth** » 14 Aug 2007, 13:57

A few Mike Tyson quotes.

"There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right."

"Everybody's got plans... until they get hit."

"I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds. "

One of my favorites:

“Smart too late and old too soon, ... This is just my ending.”

JC · Post by JC » 14 Aug 2007, 14:12

abosworth wrote:"Everybody's got plans... until they get hit."

I think that one was Joe Louis rather than Tyson.

I like Willie Pep's reply to a report who asked him what happened to all his money,

"It went on fast women and slow horses."

Jaclem · Post by **Jaclem** » 14 Aug 2007, 23:29

..squarering.....i'm not questioning you, but i'm, interested in your source. i recall that quote of joe louiis to blackburn as being before the second buddy baer fight, in which he did flatten buddy in the first round. plus, the longest string of one round knockouts louis scored was three...and that was in his earliest defenses when blackburn , i think, was in good health. i'd appreciate your giving the source for this quote so can dig into my own books to see if I have it wrong. thanks.

abosworth · Post by **abosworth** » 20 Aug 2007, 14:32

Jaclem wrote:..squarering.....i'm not questioning you, but i'm, interested in your source. i recall that quote of joe louiis to blackburn as being before the second buddy baer fight, in which he did flatten buddy in the first round. plus, the longest string of one round knockouts louis scored was three...and that was in his earliest defenses when blackburn , i think, was in good health. i'd appreciate your giving the source for this quote so can dig into my own books to see if I have it wrong. thanks.

I got it from here.

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/mike_tyson/

They could have been mistaken though.

m1kee50 · Post by **m1kee50** » 20 Aug 2007, 16:00

J-C wrote:
abosworth wrote:"Everybody's got plans... until they get hit."
I think that one was Joe Louis rather than Tyson.

I like Willie Pep's reply to a report who asked him what happened to all his money,

"It went on fast women and slow horses."

My mother always told me to stay away from fast women, slow horses

Jaclem · Post by **Jaclem** » 21 Aug 2007, 00:35

...thanks for checking.....but i am certain the louis "climb thge steps once" was before the second buddy baer fight. in several books...and it would fit the condition of blackburn at the time. it was the last time blackburn was in is corner..manny seamon then took over.

Knucklez · Post by **Knucklez** » 22 Aug 2007, 18:05

Ezzard wrote:
witherspoon wrote:
Ezzard wrote:I read this some years ago (and hope my memory serves me well) and maybe someone here can vouch for its validity or debunk it...

Liston was having drinks in London at a table that included Reg Gutteridge (TV commentator). The subject of race came up and Liston posed the question as to why racists call black people monkeys when white people generally have a lot more hair on their bodies than black people.

Quick as a flash Reg makes a bet that Sonny's got more hair on his leg than Reg has. Sonny takes the bet and rolls his trouser leg up. Sure enough there are very few hairs on there. The other people at the table want to see Reg's leg. he dutifully rolls it up to reveal a completely smooth false leg. Sonny had no idea about Reg's leg and paid up the bet. Despite trying to be affable Liston was apparently not that impressed with Reg's little joke.
This story is in Reg's autobiography. So unless Mr.Gutteridge is a liar, it's true.
Thanks

I think i read it in a newspaper... Nice to know it's for real.

The first time Reg Gutteridge met Sonny Liston, Sonny felt that Reg wasn't respectful enough to him, so him flicked Reg in the nuts, hard. Accompanied with the line: "Bow before the champion".

HomicideHenry · Post by **HomicideHenry** » 27 Aug 2007, 03:02

Butterbean [to Scott LeDoux]: "How come my nose is straight and your's is so crooked?"

Ledoux [to Butterbean]: "Because I fought eight world champions and you fought fifty bums!"

Classic!

HomicideHenry · Post by **HomicideHenry** » 28 Aug 2007, 20:23

“Liston is like most big bullies, if you can stay away and make him miss for a few rounds he'll get frustrated. Once you strip away that feeling of invincibility, he can be had.”

Rocky Marciano on Charles 'Sonny' Liston

Ironic, considering that's exactly what Muhammad Ali done 8)

HomicideHenry · Post by **HomicideHenry** » 28 Aug 2007, 23:25

"Had this fight been in an alley back home in Texas, I would have whipped Larry Holmes' ass!"

Randall "Tex" Cobb, following his brutal one-sided loss to Larry Holmes

HomicideHenry · Post by **HomicideHenry** » 29 Aug 2007, 00:20

"I was the first and only fighter who ever tried to make an art out of being an Opponent...I never trained, but I knew I had enough in the tank to go three rounds. I always tested their chin, but if I couldn't knock 'em out, I'd look for a soft spot in the canvas, wait for a big punch and close my eyes."

Bruce "The Mouse" Strauss

HomicideHenry · Post by **HomicideHenry** » 29 Aug 2007, 00:45

Decagon

I didnt know the #3 World's Strongest Man/ Pro Wrestler Ken Patera was a boxer

HomicideHenry · Post by **HomicideHenry** » 29 Aug 2007, 01:18

can't say I have heard that one, but "The Great Alexeyev" on steroids?

I hardly believe it considering the man's ample beer belly and looking more like the guys off the SNL skit [''Da Bears!''] than a genuine weightlifter....I do remember a quote from him once though, when he was asked what he thought of body-builders like Arnold Schwarzenegger with such defined bodies:

"The hare may be more conditioned, but the tortise always win the race"

Or summin along those lines

HomicideHenry · Post by **HomicideHenry** » 29 Aug 2007, 02:12

true, but then again, even Arnold Schwarzenegger said that steroids don't really give the great increase like one would think. I remember him once saying something along the lines of "If you could lift 1,000 pounds, it might increase you to lift 1,200 pounds"

=shrugs=

tagjohnson · Post by **tagjohnson** » 29 Aug 2007, 11:37

I don't think this has been posted yet. Sorry if it has. Chuck Wepener once said, "I started out at 6'1" but with all the uppercuts I'm up to 6'5"."

Jaclem · Post by **Jaclem** » 31 Aug 2007, 23:56

...ali wouldn't be able to read that quote and he wouldn't have been able to say it either.

HomicideHenry · Post by **HomicideHenry** » 01 Sep 2007, 06:32

"I think Roper's scared of me! I'm gonna make him kiss a donkey! Kiss the donkey son! Kiss the mule!"

"Irish" Terry Conklin, from Spike Lee's THE GREAT WHITE HYPE

elmersalsa · Post by **elmersalsa** » 04 Sep 2007, 08:37

Interviewer: "I saw Sonny Liston the other day and..."
Ali interrupts him by saying: "Ain't he ugly?"

I am surprised that none of y'all wrote this one:
Ali said : "It'll be a thrilla, a chilla and a killa, when I get the gorilla in Manila!"

"I'll kill you"...Duran when he saw Arguello for the hyped superfight that never happened.

"Did he went the distance?"...Sugar Ray Leonard asked on Duran when Duran was sparring right after the "No Mas" fight.

Duran on Leonard: "With me in the ring, I'll make his face look ugly"

And the over the hill Duran response when he lost to Leonard when Larry Merchant asked him to stop fighting because he was 38 years old: "Me, I'm young boy!"

And Chavez when he quit against DeLahoya in the rematch whe they asked him that he quit, Chavez replies:"Bullshit!"

HomicideHenry · Post by **HomicideHenry** » 05 Sep 2007, 23:21

“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.”

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

“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?”

“The toughest thing to do in the ring is restrain myself. I want to knock the other guy in the groin, but I know I can’t do that.”

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

Randall "Tex" Cobb

Grimm · Post by **Grimm** » 08 Jun 2010, 16:24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFqyM4EJEyc&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZLjpG6e ... re=related

Diamond WEAPON · Post by **Diamond WEAPON** » 08 Jun 2010, 20:42

Ricardo Mayorga:
Before 2nd Forrest bout:

"I'm the champion. You've got to recognize that. My strongest hand is my right hand. You see his eye? I'm going to detach his retina."

"I invite you all to watch three rounds of boxing"

Also before 2nd Forrest bout: "I'm angry that my son (Forrest) didn't get me a present for Father's Day, I'll be sure to punish him."

After 2nd Forrest bout:
"I wanted to let him know that he couldn't hurt me"

"I know it's not a wise thing t want to get hit, and Mr. King told me after the fight that he doesn't want to see me doing that again, but it's what I wanted to do at the time. I wanted to let him know that I was the boss, I was his daddy, I was the champ.

Before Spinks bout:
"You're going to see your (dead) mother again very soon!"

Before De La Hoya bout:
"I'm not a fag and a singer like you, I'm a real fighter. The Mexicans will be rooting for me!"

"I'm gonna show Oscar's wife what a real man is like when I knock him out."

"De La Hoya doesn't have the balls to stay in the ring with me. He is going to pay for the mistake of accepting this fight."

Before Vargas bout:
"Fatty over here is of no concern to me, he's gonna retire after I mutilate him and leave his wife crying."

"His face looks like my son's ass, soft and round!"

"You remind me of an old lady that's past her prime that should be sitting home in a rocking chair doing nothing."

Before Mosley bout:
"I come from a place where men wear the pants in the family!"

Goodnight, Irene · Post by **Goodnight, Irene** » 08 Jun 2010, 20:50

Diamond WEAPON wrote:Ricardo Mayorga:
Before 2nd Forrest bout:

"I'm the champion. You've got to recognize that. My strongest hand is my right hand. You see his eye? I'm going to detach his retina."

"I invite you all to watch three rounds of boxing"

Also before 2nd Forrest bout: "I'm angry that my son (Forrest) didn't get me a present for Father's Day, I'll be sure to punish him."

After 2nd Forrest bout:
"I wanted to let him know that he couldn't hurt me"

"I know it's not a wise thing t want to get hit, and Mr. King told me after the fight that he doesn't want to see me doing that again, but it's what I wanted to do at the time. I wanted to let him know that I was the boss, I was his daddy, I was the champ.

Before Spinks bout:
"You're going to see your (dead) mother again very soon!"

Before De La Hoya bout:
"I'm not a fag and a singer like you, I'm a real fighter. The Mexicans will be rooting for me!"

"I'm gonna show Oscar's wife what a real man is like when I knock him out."

"De La Hoya doesn't have the balls to stay in the ring with me. He is going to pay for the mistake of accepting this fight."

Before Vargas bout:
"Fatty over here is of no concern to me, he's gonna retire after I mutilate him and leave his wife crying."

"His face looks like my son's ass, soft and round!"

"You remind me of an old lady that's past her prime that should be sitting home in a rocking chair doing nothing."

Before Mosley bout:
"I come from a place where men wear the pants in the family!"

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