Author: Randall “Tex” Cobb

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
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I can do my sport no greater service.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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Larry Holmes didn't beat me — he just won the first 15 rounds.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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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'll go another 15 rounds with Holmes if Howard will quit announcing football!

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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Boxing writers are the only people out there who have less constructive jobs than what I do; I don't do nothing but hit people, and those mothers don't do nothing but write about what I do!

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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Can I bite him?

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I'm actually getting to sleep before I have breakfast.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I don't know, I've never hit myself.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I'd have been more active in there, if only I'd been a little more sober.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I don't think his hands could take the abuse.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I wasn't talking to Holmes in there; every time I felt like saying something to him I found it hard because he kept putting his left hand in my mouth.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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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
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I’m not fat.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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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
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When I got up I stuck to my plan… stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I'd love to fight Gerry Cooney. But I have my price – 25 cents and a loose woman.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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Only if it's held in a phone booth.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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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