Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 3)

Anyone who weighs over 200 pounds can punch; I don't care if it's a broad.

American boxing trainer

I can do my sport no greater service.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

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

sportswriter

Mexicans are always tough with lots of heart; Koreans raw and gritty; the poor British tend to stand up straight and take it on the chops, bleeding almost before the opening bell.

Canadian sportswriter

It hurt to even bump into him.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

Buster Douglas went to bed as a 231-pound world champion and woke up as a 270-pound parade float.

American sports columnist

Rocky Marciano didn't know enough boxing to know what a feint was. He never tried to out-guess you. He just kept trying to knock your brains out.

American boxing champion

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

British 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

When Mike Tyson gets mad, you don't need a referee, you need a priest.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

Joe Bugner fought Bruno like the objective of boxing was to get hit on the jaw.

boxing film collector

My DNA is cheeseburgers.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

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

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

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

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

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

You've got to come in with more than a left hook and a bad haircut to beat Lennox Lewis.

British and Canadian boxing champion

I’m not fat.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

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

I can take it but I can't dish it out.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

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

I don't know what impressive is, but Joe was impressive tonight.

wife of fighter Joe Bugner