Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 5)

I don't know, I've never hit myself.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

If I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

Peter McNeeley dived in with overarm shots like a child hurriedly learning the doggie paddle in the deep end.

(1944 – ) British sportswriter
Boxing Sports

Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Insults Sports

Howard Cosell would rather shave a wild lion with a dull razor than fight me. 

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

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

English boxer
Boxing Occupations Sports Work

I've made the national anthem a six-point underdog.

American sports commentator & oddsmaker
Boxing Sports

I fear no man, but the dentist.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Emotions Fear Sports

That’s cricket, Harry, you get these sort of things in boxing.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Boxing Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

Boxing is just show business with blood.

English boxer
Boxing Sports

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

British sports commentator
Boxing Misspokements Sports

I got a guy who's short, stoop shouldered and balding with two left feet. They all look better than he does as far as the moves are concerned, but they don't look so good on the canvas.

American boxing trainer
Boxing Sports

The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

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

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

The current version of Buster Mathis [Jr.] boasts not just a Michelin man waist but an embonpoint thai would give him a better shot at starring in the next Wonderbra poster than winning a boxing title.

Boxing Sports

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
Boxing Eating Food/Drink Sports

When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.

English broadcaster, journalist & author
Boxing Sports

Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.

professional boxing promoter
Boxing Sports

He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager
Boxing Misspokements Sports

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

Blues saxophonist
Boxing Sports