Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 2)

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

There are three things that go on a fighter, first your reflexes go, then your chin goes, and then your friends go.

1922 – 2006) American boxing champion

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

British boxing champion

If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

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

He's got a nutritionist, and I've got room service.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

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

sportswriter

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

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

He's gonna need an industrial-strength toothpick to pick the leather out of his teeth. I'm gonna hit this man so hard he's gonna grow an Afro.

Canadian boxer

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

American professional boxer

It opens a spacious firmament to the bewildered eyes, wherein you discover more planets in a second than most distinguished astronomers observe in a lifetime.

Boxing writer

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

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

When I got up I stuck to my plan… stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight – six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

I don't mind the title fight going out at three in the morning. Everyone in Glasgow fights at three in the morning.

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

I can do my sport no greater service.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

When I get done with 'Sweet Pea,' he'll be 'Split Pea.'

American boxer

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

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Before the first Tyson fight, Frank Bruno figures to be the biggest British disaster since the Titanic. Las Vegas will bet you even money Bruno doesn't last the first round. He's 7-1 to lose, 6-1 to get knocked out, he's probably 7-5 to get killed.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

Billy Wells was all chin from the waist up.

American boxer