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After being SHUT-OUT for years... when Tommy Gilmour Snr. told Bert Gilroy it was time to pay for and renew his boxing licence;

Bert said to Tommy, "do they want me to slide it under the door!"

my dad

rules are made by wise men for fools

idiots seldom differ

I only have to read Joe Louis' name and my nose starts to bleed again. Tommy Farr

Bob Arum when asked how will Boxing be affected by Ali being banned from fighting in 1967.

"Cassius who?"

robert.snell1 wrote:Baer to Carnera when they both fell over

"last one up's a cissy"

great pic BTW

Jeff Fenech before one of his title fights where he struggled viciously to make weight and was woofing down a huge plate of his mother's home made pasta after the weighin

A reporter told him his opponent had called him an overrated bum or something similar. Fenech took his head out of the plate and with a gobful of food, blurted out "nobody puts me down and gets away with it. He's gonna pay for that :x " The reporter then went and changed his clothes, as they were by now covered with Fenech's mother's home made pasta

bollox wrote:A reporter told him his opponent had called him an overrated bum or something similar. Fenech took his head out of the plate and with a gobful of food, blurted out "nobody puts me down and gets away with it. He's gonna pay for that :x " The reporter then went and changed his clothes, as they were by now covered with Fenech's mother's home made pasta

That is so gross!! :)

Harry Greb answer to his manager when asked to train

"All I need is a haircut and shave"

"What are you gonna do now Renaldo?"

"I'm gonna go and reach higher depths"

Renaldo Snipes after getting knocked out by Larry Holmes, in a fight in which he put Larry on the canvas.

..when tommy farr was asked if he fought joe louis, he said, "if i didn't i don't know who put these knobs on my head!"


on a radio show way back when words hell and damn weren't heard on the radio (i said it was way back) rocky graziano was being interviewed and was asked about his fights with zale, he said "well.. after the first two ....if you'll pardon the expression, i pissed blood for three days."

...and ...in a similar time when the language was pristine, in his post fight inteview, minutes after he got knocked out by joe louis, tami mauriello said "I guess i got too goddam careless".....and for a few days afterward in the press chided him on his "profanity....which (as one writer put it)" i shall not dignify by repeating it here."

Walter Winchell wrote "When a boy said to his mother "how come i get spanked when i say a bad word and he didn't" his mother said "don't complain...he got a worse whipping BEFORE he said it."

If there any good cartoonists amongst the users of the site they could have a field day drawing some stuff to illustrate some of these quotes.

i may have try myself one day so beware - some crap may be on its way

palais - have a go

"He's hitting you so much he's tiring"

What Proud Kilimanjaro's trainer said to him , during his fight with Horace Notice.

Henry Armstrong

”….”I was a $15 a week railroader.One day I picked up a windblown Globe Democrat and saw where Kid Chocolate got $30,000 for a half hours work against Al Singer. That did it, I quit on the spot. It was boxing from then on.”

His pseudonym was MELODY JACKSON.

He said “ I took that cause I always wanted to do some singing”

"The Americans Lennox Lewis impresses the most are those he hits on the head"

Hugh McIlvanney 1994.

In ChavezTaylorI, Chavez's corner man says
"Splash some water on his nuts!"
And there is the infamous "NO MAS" from Roberto Duran
I also like what dempsey said to his wife after he fought Tunney
"Honey, I forgot to duck."

"I'm going to wrap him in a cocoon of horror"

Peter McNeeley before his one round lose to a comebacking Mike Tyson.

While announcing an ESPN fight, Scott LeDoux listed the names of some of the bums that an inept fighter in the ring had beaten:
"Yeah, he's got a lot of wins -- wins against Kenny Getup and Willie Last"

After getting the holy hell knocked out of him by Klitschko, when asked what he\'ll do next Derrick Jefferson said this in his post fight interview:
"I don't know...I'm a great athlete, maybe I'll take up golf."

Harry Greb, during a fight with defensive wizard Mike Gibbons shouted to his manager:
"From now on, match me with one guy at a time."

Danny O'Sullivan during a post fight interview after being knocked down 14 times against Vic Toweel:
"Adkeivhaep oi er." Then passed out.

I believe what Joe Louis said was "He can run but he can't hide"

cheers M.O.