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

1922 – 2006) American boxing champion
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

I don't think his hands could take the abuse.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

If bullshit was poetry, Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini's name would be 'Shakespeare.'

boxing manager
Boxing Sports

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
Boxing Sports

A rematch with Mike Tyson is as attractive as Sam Fox and Maria Whittaker put together.

English boxer
Boxing Sports

His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

My DNA is cheeseburgers.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Eating Food/Drink Sports

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.

(1944 – ) British sportswriter
Boxing Sports

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
Boxing People Sports

Only if it's held in a phone booth.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

I had Bernard Taylor five rounds ahead going into their fifth round.

English professional boxer
Boxing Sports

[boxing promoter] Bob Arum is one of the worst people in the western hemisphere. I don't know the eastern hemisphere very well, but I suspect he'd be one of the worst people there too, if he went.

boxing manager & trainer
Boxing Insults Sports

I’m going down so often these days you’d think I was making a blue movie.

English boxer
Boxing Misspokements Sex Sports

Everything Tyson's got has 'goodnight' written on it.

American boxing referee
Boxing Sports

Before Don King started insulting me I was a complete unknown in this country. Now people stop me and ask for my autograph.

British boxing manager
Boxing Sports

Venezuela! Great, that's the Italian city with the guys in the boats, right?

American boxing promoter
Boxing Misspokements Places Sports

Ingemar Johansson is a leviathan with a strangler's hands and a smile like the beam of a lighthouse.

Boxing Sports

A re-match with Eubank is not in my plans. I'm not interested in him because he's got nothing I want… except a Harley-Davidson motorbike.

British boxer
Boxing Sports

Before the first Tyson fight, Frank Bruno figures to be the biggest British disaster since the Titanic. Las Vegas will bet you even money Bruno doesn't last the first round. He's 7-1 to lose, 6-1 to get knocked out, he's probably 7-5 to get killed.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Boxing Sports

I’m undisputed. There's no disputing that.

British and Canadian boxing champion
Boxing Misspokements Sports