"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick." Ali
Not stupid, but pretty funny Henry Cooper, replying to boxing abolitionist, Baroness Edith Summerskill, about the brutalities of his sport. Baroness: "Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?" Cooper: "Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?"
"it's just a job. grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand....i beat peopel up" Ali "when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive" "Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger." leonard "And I want to say anything is possible....Comma. You know" "When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that" frank bruno "I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool." leon spinks
:good Agree, absolutley outrageous comment Decebal....What about this 1, not outrageous like Sykes, but very witty.. Max Barr, on Joe Louis: "He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."
Vantage West - :good "Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger." leonard
Can we get some Tex Cobb love: "If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass." (When informed that Howard Cosell quit boxing after his fight with Larry Holmes) "My gift to boxing." When asked about how he was going to fight Holmes by Howard Cosell "Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him" (Asked about a possible rematch against Larry Holmes) "I dont think his hands can take the abuse" Asked about fighting Holmes again "Only if it's held in a phone booth" "Larry Holmes doesn't hit as hard as Earnie Shavers. Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him." "Larry Holmes didn't beat me he just won the first 15 rounds" Mills Lane stopped the action to ask Cobb if he was okay in a fight in Reno. When Cobb replied that he was, Lane asked him, "Do you know where you are?" Cobb replied, "I am in Reno, getting the **** kicked out of me." Versus Larry Holmes, the action was stopped so the ref could check on Cobb. He asked him, "Do you see me?" Cobb replies, "Yeah. You're white. It's the black guy I'm worried about." "Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle". When Cobb heard what Cosell had said during the Holmes fight "I'll go another 15 rounds with Holmes if Howard will quit announcing football!" "I stuck to my game plan -- stumbling forward and getting hit in the face." "They called me a fat, cowardly, cocaine-snorting, fight-fixing cheat," Who they calling fat!" (When asked about continuing his career) "Better than getting a real job, right!" "I was only knocked out once, by a Mexican bantamweight, you wanna know how come? Six of my pals were swinging him 'round by his heels at the time.." "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!!" When tex cobb was on Johnny Carson soon after the Holmes fight, Carson commented on how Holmes kept landing his jab on Cobb. Cobb said "you noticed that too?" During the referee's instructions prior to his bout with Shavers, the ref asked the customary "Any questions"? Cobb replied "Can I bite him"?