Memorable boxing quotes

[gensu3k1]

The incredible thing about Tex Cobb (well, one of them) is that I've easily read 20 great quotes from him, but all the quotes I've read on this thread are new to me. I believe it was in the Holmes fight when he looked at the ref and said "help me, I'm white!"

more from Tex:

"Larry Holmes didn't beat me, he just won the first 15 rounds"

On being told that Cosell was quitting boxing telecasts after his fight with Holmes: "I would have gone another 15 if he'd quit calling football."

When asked by a ref where he was: "I am in Reno, getting the sh*t kicked out of me."

[FreudPatterson]

Always work the ref's blind side.

Fritzie Zivic

Héctor Camacho's great-dream is to die in his own arms.

Irving Rudd.

Herol Graham has turned boxing into a poetic art. The problem is that nobody has been Kayoed by a poem

Eddie Shaw

I was once knocked out by a mexican bantamweight- six of my friends were swinging him around at his heels at the time.

Randall " Tex" Cobb

I'd love to fight Gerry Conney but i have my price- 25 cents and a loose woman

Randall "Tex" Cobb

If bullshit was poetry, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini's name would be Shakespeare.

Dennis Rappaport.

If the cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all i am

Marvin Hagler.

My girlfriend boos when we make love because she knows it turns me on.

Héctor camacho (1989)

On a strange offer after becoming world champion- Pose nude for Playgirl- i wouldn't pose nude for boxing news

John Conteh( 1974)

I'll bet th' hardest thing "bout prize fighting" is pickin' yer teeth with a boxin' glove on

Francis "Kin" Hubbard.

My God, kids today think the laces are for tyin' up the gloves.

Fritzie Zivic

On being asked, by a female reporter, if he watched his opponents eyes or gloves. His gloves, dear. I've never been hit by an eye

Terry Dowries.

Laters. 8)

[mapp35]

"The guy had on turtleneck shorts" Bernard Hopkins on Syd Vanderpool complaining of low blows.

[Friedie]

"We wuz robbed....we'd betta stood in bed..."

Joe Jacobs, boxing manager, June 21st, 1932

8)

[silkov]

AAAAIIIIIDDDDDRRRIIIAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!.... 8)

[FreeIkemefula]

More Cobb. A reporter told him that he waS RESPONSIBLE for making Howard Cosell quit boxing.
Cobb said he couldn't have done more for the world had he cured cancer. Tex was awesome. He was great in Fletch 2. He was the inmate in the jail. Chevy chase asks him his name. Randall says Ben Dover.

[Rocky Balboa]

The one quote every1 has forgotten to mention?

"You can run, but you can't hide". None other than the great Joe Louis.

[knockout artist]

The one quote every1 has forgotten to mention?

"You can run, but you can't hide". None other than the great Joe Louis.

Very True.

[turn2stone]

A timely quote from Bob Arum as few years ago "Yesterday I was lying....today I'm telling the truth".

[Broncano]

"You call that a great fighter?"

-Howard Cosell on Marvin Hagler after he had knocked out Norberto Cabrera from Argentina in Montecarlo, 1979.

[Dave1armedTua]

"What the Hell do you mean I'm in a boxing ring?"

Spinks after getting KO'ed by Tyson

[MightyWarrior]

A modern classic posted by bennie:

"In an interview on Iran Barkley on Boxing Insider, "The Blade" was asked if Tommy Hearns praised him after their first fight in which Hearns was shocked in three rounds.
Said Barkley: "Well, you know, Tommy said to me, 'Good fight'. It wasn't much that he could say. They just carried him out."

And an old classic:

Jerry Quarry, I think, was interviewed by some BBC guy, just after he'd knocked stone cold in 30 seconds, the latest Brit heavyweight hope.

The desperate & shocked BBC reporter, seeking some sort of positive for the fallen hero, asked "Well.........did you find his style awkward at all Jerry?"

The good natured Quarry answered "Ummm...I guess he kinda fell awkwardly"

[bennie]

Mickey Walker, 'The Toy Bulldog', had always been irritated by the legacy of Stanley Ketchel. It seemed no matter what Mickey did, in the eyes of the average boxing fan, he could not compete with 'The Michigan Assasin.' One day, however, Mickey met a man at a bar who appeared different. The guy was profuse in his declarations of how great Walker was. Flattered, Walker bought the guy a beer. The guy went on gushing about Walker-this and Walker-that. Eventually, Mickey got the nerve: how did the fan feel he would do against Ketchel?
Without blinking an eye and with beer still in hand, the fan said: "He would've moydered you!"

[knockout artist]

"Stay in school and use your brains. Be a Doctor, be a Lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Dont go into Sports as a profession, Sports make you grunt and smell. Be a thinker, not a stinker"!

Appolo Creed 1976.

[KOJOE90]

Reporter "How important is this fight to you?"

Former British Heavyweight contender Paul Sykes "Well without swearing, it's shit or bust"

[Johnny Carwash]

"I never cease to amaze myself. I say this humbly." --Don King

"My goal is to be professional but to kill him." --Mike Tyson

"How can you trust a man who can speak for five minutes and you can understand a sentence of it?" --Lennox Lewis on Don King

"Yeah, my son, Evander Jr." --Evander Holyfield, when asked if he'd ever met anyone else named Evander

"A bitch got knocked out by a bitch." --James Toney, on the second Jones-Tarver fight

"You gettin' beat by a man with titties!" --One of Bruce Seldon's cornermen, during his loss to Gerald Nobles

"What round did I get knocked out in?" --Jack Dempsey to his corner after the first round of his fight with Luis Firpo; Dempsey would go on to knock Firpo out in the next round.

"What's the point of being Irish if you can't be stupid?" --Billy Conn, when asked why he went for the knockout when leading Joe Louis comfortably and ended up getting knocked out himself.

[babyhuey]

SOMEONE POST THE DIALOG BETWEEN LARRY MERCHANT AND HOPKINS INTERVIEW AFTER HOPKINS EASY FIGHT WHERE LARRY ASK HIM
"HOW IT FEELS TO GET PAID FOR DOING NOTHING TONIGHT...."
I CANT DO IT JUSTICE, AS I CANT REMEMBER IF IT WAS HOPKINS OR EVEN TONEY??

[robert.snell1]

great stuff guys this is one of those threads that you print of and keep.

[JC]

SOMEONE POST THE DIALOG BETWEEN LARRY MERCHANT AND HOPKINS INTERVIEW AFTER HOPKINS EASY FIGHT WHERE LARRY ASK HIM
"HOW IT FEELS TO GET PAID FOR DOING NOTHING TONIGHT...."
I CANT DO IT JUSTICE, AS I CANT REMEMBER IF IT WAS HOPKINS OR EVEN TONEY??

I think I went something like

Merchant- "Bernard, you got paid for doing nothing today"

Hopkins-"Larry, you get paid for doing nothing everyday."

I also like the story about Sam Langford trying to touch gloves with an opponent (as you would before the last round) at the start of the fifth, when his opponent protested, "It's not the last round" Langford replied, "Oh yes it is" and went on to knock him out.

[robert.snell1]

When the wizard says to the orcs " taste man flesh" if Tyson was In the back row he may well have said

"done that already boss"

wizards reply " Go for seconds"

reply " done that"

wizards reply "ok guys start with the fella at the back"


bit silly but what the hell - me not the wizard

[babyhuey]

who was the boxer? who said,
"last night i knocked him out in 5 rounds,"
"but when i woke up today i realized it was a dream,
and i had to get up and do it all over again."
great quote!!!
i just cant seem to remember who said it?

[KOJOE90]

who was the boxer? who said,
"last night i knocked him out in 5 rounds,"
"but when i woke up today i realized it was a dream,
and i had to get up and do it all over again."
great quote!!!
i just cant seem to remember who said it?

AAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!!


Cheers mate! That quote is buggibg me now!

I've heard it to.

[Guest]

Mike Tyson; "I could sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating."

Maybe he should've tried that rather then fighting Danny Williams.

[robert.snell1]

Baer to Carnera when they both fell over

"last one up's a cissy"