Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 2)

No fighter comes into the ring hoping to win – he goes in hoping to win.

English boxing champion

I'll bet the hardest thing about prize fighting is picking up your teeth with a boxing glove on.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Everybody has a plan, ’till they get hit.

(1966 – ) American boxing champion

With four sisters about the house, I could never get my hands on a comb.

American boxing champion

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

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

A rematch with Mike Tyson is as attractive as Sam Fox and Maria Whittaker put together.

English boxer

Me and Jake LaMotta grew up in the same neighborhood. You wanna know how popular Jake was? When we played hide and seek, nobody ever looked for LaMotta.

(1919 – 1990) American boxing champion

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

If I fought Evander [Holyfield] with a baseball bat, I would win the fight… but it would be by decision.

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

American boxer

Floyd Patterson is everything a world heavyweight champion should be… except busy.

American boxing champion

Now it comes to a simple equation – who can stand the heat.

British sports commentator

The Mexicans… these tiny little men from South America.

British sports commentator

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've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set… and they're both working.

1922 – 2006) American boxing champion

Howard Cosell is nobody’s fool. He’s everybody’s fool.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

Earnie hit me so hard, it shook my kinfolk back in Africa.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

In pro boxing, let's face it, the name of the game is how much you make – not how many honors won. Billy Walker was the most successful flop in history.

English boxing journalist & commentator

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

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

Brian London possesses the most unbeautiful face – it looks as if it, at one time, fell apart and was reassembled by a drunken mechanic.

English broadcaster, journalist & author

I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don’t fight, I’ll eat this planet.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion