Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 10)

He's got a cut on his left eye… it's just below his eyebrow.

British sports commentator

Billy Wells was all chin from the waist up.

American boxer

Gerry Cooney can't fight to keep warm.

Boxing press agent

It’s a lot harder than tennis. If I make a mistake, it’s like 0-15. In boxing, you let your head down once and you’re in the hospital.

American professional tennis player

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

American boxing champion

The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

When I hit Jimmy with that left it felt like when you hit a baseball and it goes right into deep field.

American boxing champion

I had Bernard Taylor five rounds ahead going into their fifth round.

English professional boxer

I can do my sport no greater service.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

My three best punches were the choke hold, the rabbit punch and the head butt.

American boxer

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.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

Everybody wants a piece of the cake, but my cake has no slices.

Swedish boxing champion

I don't know, I've never hit myself.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight.

British boxer

Frank Bruno's fall was that of a felled oak. As the dust settled there was a silence, and then followed the gentle rustle of falling leaves of greenbacks.

(1944 – ) British sportswriter

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

English boxer

In Willie DeWit, we have an all-American boy, even though he is a Canadian.

Don King dresses like a pimp and speechifies like a store-front preacher.

boxing writer

A rematch with Mike Tyson is as attractive as Sam Fox and Maria Whittaker put together.

English boxer

Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg.

English boxing champion

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

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor