Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 10)

Peter McNeeley dived in with overarm shots like a child hurriedly learning the doggie paddle in the deep end.

(1944 – ) British sportswriter
Boxing Sports

Ali wouldn't have hit Joe Louis on the bum with a handful of rice.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

Nah, I’m just a prizefighter.

(1919 – 1990) American boxing champion
Boxing Misspokements Sports

I wasn't talking to Holmes in there; every time I felt like saying something to him I found it hard because he kept putting his left hand in my mouth.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

There are three things that go on a fighter, first your reflexes go, then your chin goes, and then your friends go.

1922 – 2006) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Well, we have been trying to get Elvis… he's been dead long enough.

brother of boxer champion George
Boxing Sports

Fear was absolutely necessary; without it, I would have been scared to death.

American boxing champion
Boxing Misspokements Sports

After all the years of punishment you've taken, you must be thinking about giving up pantomime.

(1952 – ) British barrister, comedy writer, and radio & television presenter
Boxing Sports

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

British sports commentator
Boxing Misspokements Sports

When Mike Tyson gets mad, you don't need a referee, you need a priest.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Boxing Sports

Years ago we had the Raging Bull, Jake LaMotta. Today, we've got the Raging Bullshit, Bruce Strauss.

boxing matchmaker
Boxing Sports

Since I didn't want to go round mugging old ladies or robbing banks, I took up boxing.

English boxer
Boxing Occupations Sports Work

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

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

My main objective is to be professional, but to kill him.

(1966 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Anyone who weighs over 200 pounds can punch; I don't care if it's a broad.

American boxing trainer
Boxing Sports

I'm actually getting to sleep before I have breakfast.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

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

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Insults Sports

Johnny Carson gently suggested to Cobb that Larry Holmes seemed to be always a step ahead of him

Cobb replied: Did it seem that way to you too?

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

Ingemar Johansson is a leviathan with a strangler's hands and a smile like the beam of a lighthouse.

Boxing Sports

I've made the national anthem a six-point underdog.

American sports commentator & oddsmaker
Boxing Sports

I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm also not Charles Manson.

(1966 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Characteristics Sports