Your favorite quote by a boxer

Fade into Bolivian, I think?

 

I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them. So you shouldn't talk anymore ... Unless you want to, you know." - Mike Tyson

 

Chuck Wepner " honey tonight you will be sleeping with the heavyweight champion of the world "
His wife " should I go to Ali's room, or will he come to mine "

 

A lot of people forget about this one--but it's very profound in its own way:

“It’s hard to wake up and go running at 5am, when you are sleeping in silk pajamas”- Marvin Hagler

 

Say what you will about Earnie, but he definitely stuck to the game plan.

 

“ I’m so bad I make Medicine sick. “

-Muhammad Ali-

 

"You'll pardon me gentlemen, if i make the fight short.
I have a train to catch."

Sam Langford

 

This is a well known but worth repeating:

"Everybody has a plan until they gets punched in the mouth"

 

“They can all get some. Remember this! I will do this to all y'all down here. Look at his face. I don't care if you're a flyweight, or your mamma weight! I will kick your ass!” - JT

 

I related this one in another thread recently, but it’s worth repeating.

Ray Arcel worked the corners of 14 Joe Louis victims, including many of the Bum of the Month Club guys. I guess they’d go to Stillman’s to train and Ray was always available as the cornerman of choice.

As Arcel related it, about the fourth time he showed up in a corner opposite the Brown Bomber, when they went to center ring for instructions Joe noticed him and did a quick double-take and smiled.

“You back again?”

Arcel said that cracked him up.

 

While Marciano has been quoted as saying this of Liston, before the champ took on Cassius Clay:

"Liston is like most big bullies, if you can stay away and make him miss for a few rounds he'll get frustrated. Once you strip away that feeling of invincibility, he can be had."

 

Mrs. Wepner definitely wins for best quote by a boxer's wife.

 

"If I don't beat Marciano take my name out of the record book." - Unknown

 

“Boxers, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.”
- 'Irish' Wayne Kelly

 

“Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that’s in rhythm or you’re in trouble. Your rhythm should set the pace of the fight. If it does, then you penetrate your opponent’s rhythm. You make him fight your fight, and that’s what boxing is all about.” - Sugar Ray Robinson