i always liked when LL said something like this - "it takes more than a haircut and a left-hook to beat lenox lewis"
"They called me the Heavyweight champion that got knocked down the most, I prefer to look at it as being the Heavyweight Champion that got up the canvas the most" - Floyd Patterson ""It's like being in love with a woman. She can be unfaithful, she can be mean, she can be cruel, but it doesn't matter. If you love her, you want her, even though she can do you all kinds of harm. It's the same with me and boxing. It can do me all kinds of harm but I love it." - Floyd Patterson "Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book." Joe Frazier
"I learn that these guys get drunk before they go to judge fights" "He can kiss where the sun don't shine, and since we're on HBO thats my big black behind"
Tyson On His Wife "I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin. When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined." "Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her." On His Childhood "One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like a infantile ******." On His Time in Prison "You have to understand, Frank Bruno would not have been champion if I had not been in prison. Oliver McCall would not have been champion if I had not been in prison. A lot of these guys would not have been champion. Michael Moorer would not have been champion. Those guys would not have been champion if I had been around. They would have had no legacy. None of those guys would have had a legacy." "I would have been in shape. I would have been active. Holyfield, those guys wouldn't have been champion when I was around, but I went away for four or five years inactive and that made them competitive for a time." "But you really have to look at the science of the situation. You guys come here to talk and report but you don't actually look at the facts of what this business is all about. The best thing that happened to those guys and they should stand on their mother's shoulders and kiss my ass because I went to prison or they would not be existing right now. They'd be a flash in the pan and would have made some money and opened up a restaurant or bar somewhere where they live at."
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?" Iran Barkley: "Rob your house" Larry Holmes "All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps."
