Your favorite quote by a boxer

“Bring yo ass, Tyrone.”

By James Toney after Tyrone Trice called him out after a win on USA Tuesday Night Fights one time. Toney showed up the next week and stepped in the ring (Trice wasn’t there) to ‘respond’ and said this, dropped the mic and left, haha.

 

"He called me a r*pist and a recluse. I'm not a recluse."

 

"No I am not God, but I am something similar." -Roberto Duran

 

Joe Frazier’s response to Ali.

Ali: “Don’t you know I’m a God?”

Frazier: “God, you're in the wrong place tonight”

 

It doesn't matter as long as the ref can count to ten--Sonny Liston

 

Similar to Tex Cobb when, I think it was Cosell, said he was a fat, coke-head bum.

“They called me a fat, cowardly, cocaine-snorting, fight-fixing cheat. Who they calling fat?” said Cobb.

 

"It's hard to wake up and do road work at 5:00 am if you're sleeping in silk pajamas." - Marvin Hagler

"My birthday was Monday, now I finally get to go home and enjoy it with some Burger King. Here I come baby! Burger King! Burger King!" - The one and only James Toney

 

“When I come out I have supreme confidence. But I'm scared to death. I'm afraid. I'm afraid of everything. I'm afraid of losing. I'm afraid of being humiliated. But I'm confident. The closer I get to the ring the more confident I get. The closer, the more confident. All during training I've been afraid of this man. I think this man might be capable of beating me. I've dreamed of him beating me. For that I've always stayed afraid of him. The closer I get to the ring the more confident I get. Once I'm in the ring I'm a god. No one could beat me. I walk around the ring but I never take my eyes off my opponent….During the fight I'm supremely confident. I'm making him miss and I'm countering. I'm hitting him to the body; I'm punching him real hard. And I'm punching him, and I'm punching him, and I know he's gonna take my punches. He goes down, he's out."
- Mike Tyson

 

"I kill a man and most people understand and forgive me. However, I love a man, and to so many people this is an unforgivable sin." - Emile Griffith

"I broke my back" - Mike Tyson

"Hell yeah! Burger king! Burger King!" - James Toney

"Got any excuses tonight Roy?" - Antonio Tarver

Ali's "You my opposer" speech, you already know it I'm not typing it out.

"I'm not Tommy Morrison!" - Larry Holmes.

"Then I'll stop bleeding" - Henry Armstrong.

I'm pretty sure Hagler didn't actually say "Well I'm hitting him aren't I?" but if he did then that goes here too.

"You'd be on the tour." - Joe Louis

There's also the quotes that transcend boxing like "You can run but you can't hide" and "Bringing home the bacon"

 

I've posted this before so sorry if anyone recognises it but Max Baer's final quip takes it for me. In a hotel and experiencing chest pains, he called reception.

'Would you like to see the house doctor?' he was asked.

'No. I'd like to see the people doctor.' he replied. He was dead within the hour. Talk about laughing in the face of adversity. You can only imagine how much fun he was when he wasn't dying.

 

Jim Grey: Are you going to retire Mike?
Mike Tyson: yeah I might just go into Bolovian.

 

heavy on the burger king quote

 

When asked what his plan was for the Kenny Norton fight Earnie Shavers said,,
"I'm going to hit Ken Norton in the head"