Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 11)

I can only see it going one way, that’s my way. How it’s actually going to go I can't really say.

English boxer

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

I can do my sport no greater service.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.

American boxer

The Mexicans… these tiny little men from South America.

British sports commentator

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

(1966 – ) American boxing champion

After Buster Douglas knocked out Tyson – He's just like Humpty Dumpty. They're not going to be able to put Tyson back together again.

I'd love to fight Gerry Cooney. But I have my price – 25 cents and a loose woman.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

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

When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.

English broadcaster, journalist & author

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

British sports commentator

The ability to witness two men stand toe to toe in the spirit of sportsmanship and pummel each other into insensibility is what separates us from the animals.

(1938 – ) American actor

It has made the richest prize in sport the richest prize in sport.

American boxer

There are certain things you can't get back, like the elastic in your socks.

boxing trainer

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

professional boxing promoter

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

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Butch Lewis is making no attempt to get out of the corner… and is hanging his chin out like a lantern in a storm.

English boxing journalist & commentator

Venezuela! Great, that's the Italian city with the guys in the boats, right?

American boxing promoter

It hurt to even bump into him.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

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

American boxer

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? … he went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager