Quotes and One Liners

Boxing Sports On being asked for a drug test urine sample after winning a world title

British sports commentator

Boxing Misspokements People Sports

It’s a lot harder than tennis. If I make a mistake, it’s like 0-15. In boxing, you let your head down once and you’re in the hospital.

Andrea Jaeger

American professional tennis player

Boxing Sports Tennis

It’s marvelous. You win the championship of the world and the first thing they say to you is ‘Piss off!’

Jim Watt

Scottish boxer

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art; trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

Eddie Shaw

Blues saxophonist

Boxing Sports Referring to boxer Herol "Bomber" Graham

Earnie Shavers hit me, man, and knocked me face down on the canvas. I was in the land of make believe. I heard saxophones, trombones. I saw little blue rats, and they were all smoking cigars and drinking whisky.

James Tillis

American boxer

Boxing Sports Punches

Well, we have been trying to get Elvis… he's been dead long enough.

Ray Foreman

brother of boxer champion George

Boxing Sports Playing along with suggestions that his brother George was fighting stiffs

In Willie DeWit, we have an all-American boy, even though he is a Canadian.

Billy Joe Fox

American boxer

Everybody has a plan, ’till they get hit.

Mike Tyson

(1966 – ) American boxing champion

They said it would last two rounds; they were half right, it lasted four.

British sports commentator

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

Frank ‘Kin’ Hubbard

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Boxing Sports On choosing a referee for his fight against Floyd Patterson Referees

It don't matter as long as he can count up to ten.

Sonny Liston

American professional boxer

Can I bite him?

Randall “Tex” Cobb

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Boxing Sports In response to the referee asking “Any questions?” prior to his bout with Earnie Shavers

I’m not fat.

Randall “Tex” Cobb

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Boxing Sports In response to a reporter who said Cobb was a fat cocaine snorting drunk

By the way Frank Bruno went on about beating Bugner, you'd have thought he had won the Booker prize, not just taken time to out-jab an old man bullocking around pretty harmlessly in the pension queue.

Frank Keating

(1944 – ) British sportswriter

Boxing Sports Frank Bruno

Pedroza – the crown on his head hanging by a thread.

British sports commentator

Boxing Sports When asked how he felt about beating Evander Holyfield for the title

When you the man who beat the man who was the man… well, then you ‘The Man.’

Michael Moorer

American boxing champion

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

Joe Frazier

American boxing champion

Interviewer: Have you ever thought of writing your autobiography?

Chris Eubank: On what?

Chris Eubank

British boxing champion

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

British sports commentator