“I keep thinking how strange it is . . . 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; this makes me an evil person. So, even though I never went to jail, I have been in prison almost all my life.” -Emile Griffith
Your thread made me look for a while for Wayne Kelly quotes lol. He was an former Boxer and a ref. My time! “The same hand that can write a beautiful poem, can knock you out with one punch—that's Poetic Justice.” 'Irish' Wayne Kelly “Boxers, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.” 'Irish' Wayne Kelly And a classic, “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
Far out in the wilds of Oregon On a lonely mountain side Where Columbia’s mighty waters Fell down to the ocean’s tide, Where the giant fir and cedar Are imaged in the wave O’ergrown with weeds and lichens, I found Jack Dempsey’s grave I found no marble monolith No broken shaft or stone To tell of the great triumphs This vanished hero won; No rose, no shamrock I could find, No mortals here to tell, How sleeps in this forsaken spot The immortal Nonpareil A wind rock-strewn canyon road, That mortals seldom tread, Leads up this lonely mountain To the bivouac of the dead. And the western sun was sinking In the Pacific’s golden waves And solemn pines kept watching O’er poor Jack Dempsey’s grave Forgotten by ten thousand throats That thundered his acclaim; Forgotten by his friends and foes Who cheered his very name Oblivion wraps his faded form But ages hence shall save The memory of that Irish lad That sleeps in Dempsey’s grave Oh! Fame, why sleeps thy favoured son In wilds, woods and weeds? And shall he ever thus sleep on Interred his valiant deeds? ‘Tis strange New York should thus forget Its “Bravest of the Brave” And in the wilds of Oregon Unmarked, leave Dempsey’s grave Val O’Grady
"When I land my best Sunday punch, and he smiles back at me...that's when I start looking for that soft spot on the canvas!" - Bruce "The Mouse" Strauss
"I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool" Leon Spinks "There is so much hate among people, so much contempt inside people who'd like you to think they're moral, that they have to hire prizefighters to do their hating for them. And we do. We get into a ring and act out other people's hates" Floyd Patterson
"A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat." - Sonny Liston
“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
I read something an article about Floyd- that he had a hard time looking at the people he was fighting because he and someone he fought in the AMs smiled at one another at the weigh in and he kept getting gun shy. Deeply thoughtful man that Floyd.
"Color ought not to cut any figure in the ring so long as a man is willing to do his best." - Joe Gans.
