List your favorite quotes from your favorite boxers! All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him. Jack Dempsey. "I am not god...but i am something similar" P.s. not against them but trying to get some variety other than Ali quotes lol
"I'm gonna break every bone in Tommy Hearns's body." "Now Marvin, it sounds like you have a personal vendetta against Tommy?" "...not really."
Joe Louis was asked why he didn't beat up an abusive motorist after a fender bender: "Why should I? If you insult Carruso does he sing you Aria?" Jack Johnson on being told that he was fined $40 for speeding: "Heres $80 Im coming back the same way"
Muhammad Ali on being told by air hostess to put his seat belt on "Superman don't need no seat belt." Air hostess: "Superman don't need no plane."
"He can run, but he can't hide!" Joe Louis "If Larry Holmes was at his best, I couldn't stand a chance, he was a great fighter!" Mike Tyson (Chosen this one because it shows how respectful Tyson was of the greats of the past) "WAR! That's what's on my mind all the time!" Marvin Hagler in the build-up to Boxing Hearns. "You know your are being extremely truculent." "Well whatever truculent means, if that's good, I'm that!" Ali responding to Howard Cossell.
Thinking from a historical perspective, the quotes that have become most engrained into the English language are: "The bigger they are the harder they fall" Barbados Joe Walcott (I think) "We wuz Robbed" Joe Jacobs "He can run but he can't hide" Joe Louis
Reporter- "I talked to Sonny Liston the other day." Clay- "Ain't he ugly? He's too ugly to be the world champ, the world champ should be pretty like me."
"I'm gonna make his mother wish she never had him" i'm gonna open up his.........." "I don't know wether to **** him or fight him" I wonder if Tony Janiro had heard what Jake had to say before fight night. LOL
Liverpool fighter Brian McCaffrey, british weterweight contender of the 60's. On being asked by his manager Bobby Neill between rounds after a particularly heavy knockdown "Are you alright Brian, how many fingers am I holding up? "Ahh **** off Bob!" Brian went on to win.
One thing that probably isn't true but is quality nonetheless. Langford touching gloves with his opponent. Opponent: 'This isn't the last round'. Langford: 'It is for you' :good maybe someone can shed a bit of light on that, I assume it's b.s.