Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 5)

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

Canadian boxer

One day Don King will asphyxiate by the force of his own exhaust.

boxing trainer

Ali wouldn't have hit Joe Louis on the bum with a handful of rice.

American boxer

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

American boxer

Larry Holmes doesn't hit as hard as Earnie Shavers. Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

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

British sports commentator

Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

American boxing champion

Since I didn't want to go round mugging old ladies or robbing banks, I took up boxing.

English boxer

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

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

Scottish boxer

Naseem Hamed is naturally fit. I've seen more fat on a butcher's apron.

English boxing journalist & commentator

Anyone who studied McCall's contribution to the fight would not have been surprised that he failed to hit a sample tube with the required amount afterwards. Bruno, of course, had no such trouble. He is well used to having the piss taken out of him by his fellow countrymen.

sportswriter

I can do my sport no greater service.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

British boxer

Not being born to parents who were accountants was probably my biggest mistake.

British boxing champion

If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

I can only see it going one way, that’s my way. How it’s actually going to go I can't really say.

English boxer

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

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

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

My three best punches were the choke hold, the rabbit punch and the head butt.

American boxer

Hector Camacho's great-dream is to die in his own arms.

Boxing press agent