Great Boxing Quotes

"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" - Cus D'Amato

At the start of the seventh round of a match with Jack Thompson, Sam Langford extended his glove.
Thompson (puzzled) "This ain't the last round, Sam".
Langford "It is for you".

 

Tommy Gilmour to Bert Gilroy...

"Bert your Boxing Fees to the Board (BBBofC), are due..."

Bert's reply; " Do They want me to Slide them Under the Door? "

 

Yep - about Joe Louis. Misplaced confidence if ever I heard it.

 

Big George on the Moorer KO.

 

Even though Randy Cobb is probably the atg of all boxing quoters, he was out-Cobbed by Larry Holmes in this exchange:
Tex, "Next time we should fight in a phone booth."
Larry, "Yeah go ahead and I'll call you."

 

This thread is a Classic, LG. Nicely done

 

A few classics on the (unfairly maligned) Joe Bugner:

"In his prime, Joe Bugner had the physique of a Greek statue, but he had fewer moves" - Hugh McIlvanney

Joe Bugner (getting stick from the British media for his non-performance in the 2nd Ali fight): "Get me Jesus Christ and I'll fight him tomorrow!"
Mcllvanney: "Joe, you're only saying that because you know he's got bad hands...."

"Bugner fought Bruno like the objective of boxing was to get hit on the jaw" - Jim Jacobs

 

"I walk this earth like a god."
(Charles Martin, 2016).

 

Here's some more:
Randall (Tex) Cobb Quotes

• "All I do is hit somebody in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do."
• "I've always thought the greatest crime a man can do is take himself too seriously. I mean, something like fighting is pretty ridiculous to take seriously. What I do is hit people, I'm not promoting anything that is real or valuable."
• "Yeah, I've been KO'd. Once. By a Mexican bantamweight. How come? Six of my buddies were swinging him around by the heels at the time."
• "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!"
• "If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass, darling!"
• "No one hits as hard as Earnie Shavers. If there was a fighter that hit harder than Shavers, I shoot him!"
• "Sure, I'd love to fight him. But I have my price: twenty-five cents and a loose woman." - On the possibility of a fight against Gerry Cooney.
• "You're white. Help me!" - To the referee during his fight against Larry Holmes
• "Larry Holmes didn't beat me. He just won the first fifteen rounds."
• "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."
• "I don't think his hands could take the abuse." - On a possible rematch with Holmes
• "I know that fight was called the greatest mismatch in history, but all I know is that when it was over, I was walking forward." - On his fight with Larry Holmes
• "If I eliminate heart disease, if I walk on water, if I come up with a cure for crippled kids, I can't image a greater gift to mankind. That is my greatest accomplishment." - On Howard Cosell's decision to quit covering boxing because he was so disgusted by Cobb's one-sided loss to Holmes
• "He has screwed everybody he has ever been around. Hog, dog, or frog, it don't matter to Don. If you got a quarter, he wants the first 26 cents." - On promoter Don King

 

" That's why he calls himself the prince, 'cos I'm the king of the featherweight division.
Until he faces me, his mind will never be set free".

Tom "Boom Boom" Johnson on Prince Naseem Hamed - haha.

 

"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."