Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 8)

He’s the man of the hour at this particular moment.

(1931 – ) American boxing promoter
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It don't matter as long as he can count up to ten.

American professional boxer
Boxing Sports

If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse.

professional boxing promoter
Boxing Sports

Frank Bruno has a chin of such pure Waterford crystal; it gives rise to the old adage that people who live in glass jaws shouldn't throw punches. The biggest danger in fighting Bruno is that you might get hit by flying glass.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
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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
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So many of [English sporting promoter] Barry Hearn's boxers end up in the hospital; he should sell his limousine and buy an ambulance.

British boxer
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I was six foot one inch when I started fighting, but with all the uppercuts I'm up to six foot five inches.

American boxer
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It has made the richest prize in sport the richest prize in sport.

American boxer
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You run for 45 minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you just hang out and talk tough.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight – six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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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
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Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
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It's strange… two guys in shorts competing for a belt; they should, at least, award them slacks or a shirt.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor
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Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing – but none of them serious.

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

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Billy Wells was all chin from the waist up.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

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

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

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Butch Lewis is making no attempt to get out of the corner… and is hanging his chin out like a lantern in a storm.

English boxing journalist & commentator
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Howard Cosell would rather shave a wild lion with a dull razor than fight me. 

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
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After all the years of punishment you've taken, you must be thinking about giving up pantomime.

(1952 – ) British barrister, comedy writer, and radio & television presenter
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