What's the greatest quote in Boxing History?

Another all time classic: "Every time he hit me he broke something." (Chuck Wepner describing his fight with Sonny Liston.)

 

Dempsey to his movie star wife Estelle Taylor after the second Tunney fight:
"Honey, I just forgot to duck."

Boxing manager Joe Jacobs asked by a reporter what he thought about watching his first baseball game on a cold October day, an event which he found to be quite boring compared to boxing : "I shoulda stood in bed."

Joe Jacobs after his fighter Max Schmeling lost the heavyweight title on a decision to Jack Sharkey: "We wuz robbed."

Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay): "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

 

"I'm big bang. I bang you. No diddy."

 

"I'll moida the bum" - Two Ton

 

I broke my back
-Mike Tyson

 

Sober or stiff i belted the guts out of the best of them
- Mickey Walker

 

That was Jimmy Cannon, mate.

 

"Got any excuses tonight, Roy?"

What made Tarver's quote so memorable was everyone watching heard it. Everyone in the arena heard it, too.

Some famous quotes sound made up. Or we never actually heard the people say them, they're just part of Boxing lore.

But it was the last thing Tarver said to Roy Jones before Jones really lost for the first time. And just before we saw Roy knocked out for the first time, too.

It was such a brash thing to say. But Tarver knew it was his night, even if no one else did.

 

Joe Louis had a similar comment to this.

Louis had some good ones, between this and the iconic “he can run but he can’t hide”

 

This is the greatest boxing quote of all time imo.

 

The One and Only!

 

"Spinal."

 

Hi Guys.
Ketchell- " Johnson got lucky today, the point is 15lbs, when I make, I will be back and next time the ending will be different "
Downes - when asked by a reporter after the fight with Tiger who he would like to fight next " the promoter "
Monzon- asked whether he would have KD Bouttier more often he replied " if my hand was better, I would have only needed to knock him down once "
Louis - " what for that little fat man call me a bum "
Zivic - " maybe a dozen WWs could beat me, but I know I can beat Armstrong, because he would deliver to my delight "
Cobb - when asked who hurt him the most " a little FW, my mate was swinging him by the ankles, in a barroom fight "
Conn - " I was out of shape for the first fight, and being out shape with Apostoli was a bad thing "
stay safe guys, chat soon.
Mike.

 

"I'm gonna rob your house," Iran Barkley.

"Everyone has a plan 'til they get punched in the mouth," Mike Tyson

"I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain," Mike Tyson

"It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor," Larry Holmes

"I can lick any Son of a ***** in the house," John L

"A rematch with Holmes? I don't think his hands could take the abuse" Tex Cobb (we do a thread on his quotes)

 

He really say that? That's hilarious.