Subject: Sports » Boxing

Putting an ex-fighter in the business world is like putting silk stockings on a pig.

boxing manager, trainer & cornerman

If I fought Evander [Holyfield] with a baseball bat, I would win the fight… but it would be by decision.

I'm going down so often these days you'd think I was making a blue movie.

English boxer

If I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.

American boxer

They told me Jack Bodell was awkward and he was… he fell awkwardly.

American boxer

Larry Holmes didn't beat me — he just won the first 15 rounds.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Terry Downes' face looked as if he had slept on it.

English broadcaster, journalist & author

I'm a realist. You don't enter a Volkswagen at Indy unless you know a helluva shortcut.

I’ll bet the hardest thing about prize fightin’ is pickin’ up yer teeth with a boxin’ glove on.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check; I'm in the check cashing business.

American professional boxer

They're selling video cassettes of the Ali-Spinks re-match for $89.95. Hell, for that money Leon will come to your house.

boxing physician

I love boxing. Where else do two grown men prance around in satin underwear, fighting over a belt? … the one who wins gets a purse… they do it in gloves. It's the accessory connection I love.

American comedian

My head looks like ET gone wrong.

English boxer

The current version of Buster Mathis [Jr.] boasts not just a Michelin man waist but an embonpoint thai would give him a better shot at starring in the next Wonderbra poster than winning a boxing title.

I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match: “It's a fight to the finish” … that's a good place to end.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

In pro boxing, let's face it, the name of the game is how much you make – not how many honors won. Billy Walker was the most successful flop in history.

English boxing journalist & commentator

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Rocky Marciano didn't know enough boxing to know what a feint was. He never tried to out-guess you. He just kept trying to knock your brains out.

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

… standing there making a sitting target of himself.

English boxing manager & trainer

Pose nude for Playgirl? … I wouldn't pose nude for Boxing News.

English boxer