Subject: Sports » Boxing

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off… When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.

American boxing champion

This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.

British sports commentator

The bell went ding and I went dong.

British boxer

I told them sandwiches.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

Why waltz 10 rounds with an opponent if you can KO him in one?

American boxing champion

Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.

professional boxing promoter

Never in the ring of human conflict have so few taken so much from so many.

American boxer

I can close any cut in the world in 50 seconds, so long as it ain't a total beheading.

boxing cut-man

I'd have been more active in there, if only I'd been a little more sober.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

(1909–1959) American boxing champion

When you the man who beat the man who was the man… well, then you ‘The Man.’

American boxing champion

Howard Cosell is nobody’s fool. He’s everybody’s fool.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

Billy Wells was all chin from the waist up.

American boxer

He stings like a bee, but lives like a W.A.S.P.

Irish radio & television presenter

So many of [English sporting promoter] Barry Hearn's boxers end up in the hospital; he should sell his limousine and buy an ambulance.

British boxer

Jack Dempsey hit me hardest, 'cos Dempsey hit me 211,000 dollars' worth, while Joe Louis only hit me 36,000 dollars' worth.

American boxing champion

He's gonna need an industrial-strength toothpick to pick the leather out of his teeth. I'm gonna hit this man so hard he's gonna grow an Afro.

Canadian boxer

He's standing there making a sitting target of himself.

English boxing manager & trainer

He can run, but he can't hide.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion