Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 13)

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

I wish I had put ballet shoes on him and not boxing gloves.

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

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

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

British sports commentator

You'll pardon me gentlemen if I make the fight short. I have a train to catch.

Canadian boxer

Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

I’ll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.

American professional boxer

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

American boxing promoter

Some people say George Foreman is fit as a fiddle, but I think he looks more like a cello.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.

British boxing champion

Joe Bugner: Get me Jesus Christ and I'll fight him tomorrow!
Mcllvanney: Joe, you're only saying that because you know he's got bad hands.

(1934 – ) Scottish sports writer

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

American boxer

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

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

In boxing the right cross-counter is distinctly one of those things it is more blessed to give than to receive.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

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