Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 5)

Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg.

English boxing champion

I'm the best heavyweight in Canada and I'll still be the best when I'm dead seven years.

Canadian boxing champion

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

It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off… When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.

American boxing champion

I can do my sport no greater service.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

I'm a realist. You don't enter a Volkswagen at Indy unless you know a helluva shortcut.

Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less.

American boxing champion

Why waltz 10 rounds with an opponent if you can KO him in one?

American boxing champion

Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

British sports commentator

Don King is one of the great humanitarians of our time. He has risen above that great term, prejudice. He has screwed everybody he has ever been around. Hog, dog, or frog, it don't matter to Don. If you got a quarter, he wants the first 26 cents.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Mike's like a Gershwin or Beethoven. You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

(1931 – ) American boxing promoter

They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce.

1922 – 2006) American boxing champion

Standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

(1909–1959) American boxing champion

Johnny Carson gently suggested to Cobb that Larry Holmes seemed to be always a step ahead of him

Cobb replied: Did it seem that way to you too?

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

I'll do anything to keep from working for a living; if I've gotta fight a circus bear, then let's get the drawers on him and get it on!

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Magri has to do well against the unknown Mexican who comes from a famous family of five boxing brothers.

British sports commentator

This fight will be the nastiest thing you'll ever see; I've been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Mike Tyson dropped me and when I looked up, the count was on five. I said to myself, ‘Damn, whatever happened to one to four.’

American boxer

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

American sports commentator & oddsmaker

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

1922 – 2006) American boxing champion