Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 2)

Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less.

American boxing champion

… standing there making a sitting target of himself.

English boxing manager & trainer

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

Canadian boxer

You can sum up this sport in two words: You never know.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

Rocky Marciano stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump.

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing – but none of them serious.

English professional boxer

Sometimes Howard makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

They're selling video cassettes of the Ali-Spinks re-match for $89.95. Hell, for that money Leon will come to your house.

boxing physician

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

(1944 – ) British sportswriter

I'd rather be a lamppost in Denver than the mayor of Philadelphia.

American professional boxer

My head looks like ET gone wrong.

English boxer

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

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

American boxer

Why should I feel sorry for Ali? He got two and a half-million dollars for being beaten up. Most of us in this city have to pay for the privilege.

If I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.

American boxer

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

American boxing champion

I miss the things like the camaraderie in the gym; I don’t miss being smacked in the mouth every day.

Irish professional boxer

A re-match with Eubank is not in my plans. I'm not interested in him because he's got nothing I want… except a Harley-Davidson motorbike.

British boxer

Gerry Cooney can't fight to keep warm.

Boxing press agent

You run for 45 minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you just hang out and talk tough.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

I'm a realist. You don't enter a Volkswagen at Indy unless you know a helluva shortcut.