Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 8)

My head looks like ET gone wrong.

English boxer

No fighter comes into the ring hoping to win – he goes in hoping to win.

English boxing champion

George has three speeds… slow, stop, and wait a minute.

American boxing trainer

I’m not fat.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

I know it's said that I can't punch, but you should see me putting the cat out at night.

boxer

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

British sports commentator

I wish I had put ballet shoes on him and not boxing gloves.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? … he went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.

American sportswriter

I'm always into a positive black image. Whenever Leon Spinks fights I always pray, 'Dear Lord, please don't let them interview Leon on TV.'

American television personality

Because this is a title fight, I can have four people in the corner and I'll have an extra cut-man. I'll also have an extra stool, one for Vinnie to sit on, and the other to throw at him if he doesn't listen to me.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

This boxer is doing what's expected of him, bleeding from the nose.

British sports commentator

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

American boxing champion

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

Buster Douglas went to bed as a 231-pound world champion and woke up as a 270-pound parade float.

American sports columnist

Boxing is built on bums. How else are you gonna know good from bad? How else is a good boy gonna get on top and get experience unless he fights bums? I tell ya, there's a shortage of bums.

Boxing manager & promoter

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times, I’m surprised I’m not diabetic; but I did have him off the canvas once… when he stepped over my body to leave the ring.

(1921 – ) American boxing champion

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

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

boxing trainer

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

American boxing champion

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

English boxer