Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 12)

In boxing, it's one against one, whereas in rugby league you have 13 guys coming at you, all trying to do you damage. Mind you, my last fight was a bit like that.

British boxer

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

English boxer

Las Vegas is the oasis of outstretched palms.

English boxing journalist & commentator

Naseem Hamed is naturally fit. I've seen more fat on a butcher's apron.

English boxing journalist & commentator

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

professional boxing promoter

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

British boxer

If Mike Tyson gets any better, he’ll be hitting Lou Rawls while he sings the National Anthem.

American television personality

Boxing is a great exercise… as long as you can yell 'cut' whenever you want to.

(1946 – ) American actor

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

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

Muhammad Ali was on a plane when a stewardess asked him to fasten his seat belt. Ali told the lady: Superman don't need no seat belt.
The stewardess told the champ: Superman don't need no plane!

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

Interviewer: Have you ever thought of writing your autobiography?

Chris Eubank: On what?

British boxing champion

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

Joe Bugner fought Bruno like the objective of boxing was to get hit on the jaw.

boxing film collector

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

Irish radio & television presenter

Everything Tyson's got has 'goodnight' written on it.

American boxing referee

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

British boxer

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

I fear no man, but the dentist.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

I’d like to borrow [Cassius] Clay’s body for 48 hours. There are three guys I’d like to beat up and four women I’d like to make love to.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

Larry Holmes doesn't hit as hard as Earnie Shavers. Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor