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Tony Galento boxing a bear.
The sport of boxing is filled with the most colorful of characters. Below is an assortment of my favorite boxer and promoter quotes ever.
Muhammad Ali
“Joe Frazier is so ugly, he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife.”
Randall Tex Cobb
"I don't think his hands could take the abuse." – on possibility of fighting a rematch with Larry Holmes
"I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals
were swinging him around by his heels at the time."
Mike Tyson
Tyson on Tyrell Biggs' complaining to him about low blows - "Low blows? Low blows? Huh! Motherf**ker you're fittin' to die!"
"I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian."
Also on Tyrell Biggs - "I could have knocked him out in the third round but I wanted to do it slowly, so he would remember this night for a long time."
“When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.”
“I love to hit people. I love to.”
Tony Galento on what he thought about William Shakespeare
“I’ll moider da bum.”
Larry Holmes
“It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.”
Evander Holyfield
“On a scale of 1-10, I'll give myself a B."
George Foreman
“The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters.”
“Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.”
James Toney on a question about his West Indian heritage
“I’m not Indian, I’m Black.”
Alan Minter
“Sure there have been deaths in boxing, but none of them serious.”
Joe Bugner
“I am just a prawn in this game.”
Audley Harrison, after getting knocked clean unconscious for several minutes
“The referee stopped it too early.”
Jack Dempsey
“All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.”
Jake LaMotta on Sugar Ray Robinson
“I did have him off the canvas once...when he stepped over my body to leave the ring.”
Max Baer on Joe Louis
"He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."
Willie Pep
"I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set -- and they're both
working."
Peter McNeely on Mike Tyson
“I’m gonna wrap him in my cocoon of horror and knock him out."
Mitch “Blood” Green on street fight with Mike Tyson
“He hit me. Then he ran like a little sissy.”
Sonny Liston
“In the films the good guy always wins, but this is one bad guy who ain't gonna lose.”
Don King on boxing’s rating system
“When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.”
All quotes were taken from the following sources:
http://kjkolb.tripod.com/homepage/miketysonquotes.html
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/larry_holmes.html
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