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Here are some of my favorites and some of the funniest ones IMO


"He can run but he can't hide"- Joe Louis

"My girlfriend boos when we make love because she knows it turns me on."
Hector Comacho (1989)


Cobb against Larry Holmes, at one point the action was stopped so the ref could check on Tex. He asked him, "Do you see me?" Cobb replies, "Yeah. You're white. It's the black guy I'm worried about."



I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.
Randall Tex' Cobb



If bullshit was poetry, Muhammad Ali’s name would be Shakespeare.
Joe Frazier



People would rather watch Muhammad Ali watch Larry Holmes fight then watch Larry Holmes fight.
Don King


‘Calling Michael Grant’s chin glass is an insult to Glass’.
Larry Merchant



I got these ones from boxingnews.com

1. Cobb is finishing a speech in a hall with fighters like Tyson, Foreman, Holmes, Norton, Ali, Frazier, Hagler, Barkley etc in attendance.

Cobb ends his speech saying 'And i am truly honoured to be in a room with some of the baddest n***ers around!'

Renaldo Snipes then jumps out and says 'Erm Tex i didnt drive all the way here for you to offend me like that

Cobb replied 'Its alright Mr Snipes, i wasnt even talking about you'

2. More of a conversation than a quote, but this is from one of my books; Joe Louis - The Great Black Hope (Richard Bak):

Eddie "One-Round" Green, who had just been asked by his manager to imagine a fight with the Brown Bomber:

MANAGER: It's the first round. Joe Louis climbs into the ring like a tiger. What do you do?
GREEN: I climbs out of the ring like another tiger.
MANAGER: Any other man would run. But you don't.
GREEN: What's the matter? Am I glued to the floor?
MANAGER: It's the fifteenth round, and you're crawling around the ring on your hands and knees. What are you doing on your hands and knees?
GREEN: Looking for a trap door.
MANAGER: Joe Louis is covered with blood. Your nose is broken. Both your eyes are black, and your jaw is cracked. Now is the time to see what you're made of.
GREEN: What's he gonna do? Turn me inside out?
MANAGER: The crowd is yelling to the referee, "Stop it. Stop it." And what do you say?
GREEN: Okay with me.
MANAGER: I can't stand to see you take any more punishment, so what do I do?
GREEN: You close your eyes?
MANAGER: No, I throw in the towel, and they give the fight to Louis.
GREEN: Let him have it; I don't want it.
MANAGER: But you fought so well that they give you a reward.
GREEN: Oh yeah? What do they give me?
MANAGER: They give you a return fight with Joe Louis.
GREEN: Oh no they don't.
MANAGER: Oh yes they do.
GREEN: Oh no they don't.


my favorite : Ali: Joe, you really think you coulda whupped me?

Louis: When I had the title I went on what they called the Bum-of-the-Month tour.

Ali: Ya mean I'm a bum?

Louis: You woulda been on the tour.



Joe Louis, commenting on Rocky Marciano: "The Rock didn't know too much about the boxing book, but it wasn't a book he hit me with. It was a whole library of bone crushers."



Upon asked why he attempted so many body shots instead of headshots - "Cause the body aint got no eyes" -the one and only Sam Langford.

Corner man to knocked down fighter "get up at 9"
Fighter "alright,what time is it now?"
Probably never happened unless Baer said it but still funny.
Funny Ali line "I'm not conceited I'm convinced"

i dunno who to hit i see three of them out there
then hit the one in the middle...

classic line... im not sure if its a 100% correct but figure its about right didnt bother to look it up since everyone knows that line

now was that dundee and ali or dundee and leonard?

"It ain't over until its over"

Tex Cobb after winning a settle ment from Sports Illustrated where they said something like Cobb was a fat, cocaine induced joke. Cobb later responded by just saying, "Who are they calling fat."

"It ain't over until its over"

That was Yogi Berra.

Loved Ali's comment about Frazier being so ugly the sweat runs around to the back of his head to avoid having to look at his face ...

OR in his classic interview with Cosell ... "I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good I'm it !!

Marlon Starling in a quote in Sports Illustrated years ago (forget who he was referring to) ... "I'll fight him for nothing if the price is right!"

Howard Cosell retired from boxing broadcasts after the Tex Cobb's fight with Larry Holmes, citing the disgrace to boxing that the referee wouldn't stop it, after which Cobb later remarked that he'd "... go 15 rounds with Holmes again if it would get Cosell off the football broadcasts."

Iran Barkley, after he'd KO'd Tommy Hearns -

Interviewer: "What did Tommy say to you after the fight Iran?"

Barkley: "Not much....they just sort of carried him out."

Hopkins after fighting Sid Vabnderpool or Keith Holmes cant remember which one but they constantly kept crying that Hopkins was hitting them low and Hopkins thought they had their shorts pulled up past their waistline ...."They guy had on turtleneck shorts"

My 2 favorites are:

Larry Holmes referring to his fight Cooney " Once that bell rings all of the B*&^S*(&& goes out the window. It' just me and you and you can't call the cops"

Joe Louis " everyone has a game plan until they get caught".

When he heard that Stanley Ketchel had been shot dead by a woman's jealous husband his manager said "Starting counting to ten, he'll get up" Billy Conn said to Joe Louis one time after they were retired "Why didn't you let me have the title? I'd have given it back after six months." Joe replied "I gave it to you for 12 rounds and you couldn't hang on to it!"

This happened after the Lennox Lewis and David Tua fight when Tua said something about his hip surgery before the fight.

"The only thing that was wrong with David Tua was Lennox Lewis"

-Lennox Lewis.

I believe it was Max Schemmling's manager that originated "We wuz robbed!"

there was one quote where before liston-patterson fight a reporter asked sonny who he thought the referee would be

sonny replied "doenst matter who it is as long as he can count to 10."

This has been the single most enjoyable post I have ever read here.
I've been bustin up from the first entry. Much thanks.

Forgive me if this is too far off topic, Does anyone have a downloadable copy of "I am the greatest" from a Columbia Single that Ali had out in the 60's?(May have been before he changed his name) I think Stand by me was the flip side. I would love to have a copy of that. Pretty funny recording as I remember.

I worked with Joe Frazier when he had his "knockouts" in Virginia at the Hilton in Richmond. I can tell you that Ali sang better than Joe, but no one was going to tell either of them that they were not all that great. Joe did confront Ali and claim to be the better singer and he and Ali had an argument on that score on some TV show.

I will say that Joe on occasion could tell some good jokes and keep the crowd interested. Not a bad "front" man. But his voice couldnt carry the show very well. He had a pretty good band (at times) and some other singers with him that were pretty strong.

Were there any other Boxers turned entertainers? Jake Lamotta had a night club I think in Fl and did some limited MC and stand up stuff. Norton did some acting.

Joe Louis for the Max Baer fight.

Someone asked Louis
"Dempsey's going to be in his corner tonight do you think that it will affect you?"

Louis said:"Can he hit me from there?"

Other guy:"No"

Joe Louis: "Well then I aint worried about him"

another baer quote was something like when he told a reporter he could have gotten up after being decked by joe louis. the reporter asked "well then why didnt you get up"

baer said "cause fans will have to pay more than $ 50 bucks a seat to see the execution of max baer."

rory wrote

I dunno who to hit i see three of them out there
then hit the one in the middle...

didnt paulie say that in rocky IV. '

rocky was like " i see 3 of em out there"
paulie replied "hit the one in the middle"
then Duke said "right hit the one in the middle"

tagjohnson wrote:When he heard that Stanley Ketchel had been shot dead by a woman's jealous husband his manager said "Starting counting to ten, he'll get up" Billy Conn said to Joe Louis one time after they were retired "Why didn't you let me have the title? I'd have given it back after six months." Joe replied "I gave it to you for 12 rounds and you couldn't hang on to it!"

Joe Lous had some memorable quotes, he was a pretty witty guy.l

always good to see this sort of thread pop up again as we always get some new ones which are well worth keeping. nice one guys

When I was LOT younger and slimmer I boxed while I was in the Marine Corps. After I had been dropped for the second time in the second round of a fight the ref asked me if I was okay. I replied (somewhat dazedly :) "I'm fine sir, how are you?" Needless to say that wasn't the answer he was looking for and that was it for me that night.

well some refs have no sense of humour...what was the result

Me losing, tko 2