Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 12)

If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am.

American boxing champion
Boxing Self Sports

Boxing writers are the only people out there who have less constructive jobs than what I do; I don't do nothing but hit people, and those mothers don't do nothing but write about what I do!

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

Howard Cosell would rather shave a wild lion with a dull razor than fight me. 

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

I figured I'd find him sooner or later but I never did. I asked myself, "Where did he go?" I knew he was there because he kept hitting me.

British boxing champion
Boxing Sports

The champion, Jess Willard, had about as much chance in this fight as a dish-faced chimpanzee in a beauty contest.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist
Boxing Sports

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
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'll go another 15 rounds with Holmes if Howard will quit announcing football!

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing 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

It would be like the elephants standing up on two feet. It would be like the man being shot out of the cannon. It would be like a woman with a beard down to the floor. It would be the greatest show on earth.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Saying that Howard Cosell quit commensating on boxing because it's sleazy is like saying Nixon quit politics because it's crooked.

sportswriter
Boxing Sports

Tall men come down to my height when I hit ‘em in the body.

(1895 – 1983) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

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.

Boxing Sports

My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

American professional boxer
Boxing Sports

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

boxing manager, trainer & cornerman
Boxing Occupations Sports

He just wants to get in there and mash them. If you broke his arm, he'd kick you. If you broke his leg, he'd bite you. If you took out his teeth, he'd nut you. This boy wants to fight.

Irish boxer
Boxing Sports

You're damn right I know where I am! I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the sh*t kicked out of me.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

I can close any cut in the world in 50 seconds, so long as it ain't a total beheading.

boxing cut-man
Boxing Sports

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

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

Interviewer: Have you ever thought of writing your autobiography?

Chris Eubank: On what?

British boxing champion
Boxing Misspokements Sports

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

American boxing champion
Boxing Money Sports