Best boxing quotes

"114-114..... AAA DRAWWW"

Jimmy Lennon Jnr reading the final scorecard of Fenech/Nelson I.

later Don King says to Fenech.. "a rematch, a rematch"

Fenech responds... "No.. **** you"

 

"well,what the **** was that"
dave 'boy' green after being KO'd by sugar ray leonard

 

Alexis Argüello, postfight, to Mancini: "I love your father! That's the most beautiful thing you have, like I have my father!"

Reporter (after Pryor-Argüello II, interviewing the latter, with the former graciously looking on): "Is this your last?" Argüello: "Yes. I swear to God before, I do it right now in front of my good friend, Pryor, I quit!"

 

"Do n't go to no Las Vegas boxing clubs. Do n't go to no Jimmy The Greek. Come to Muhammad Ali. I am the man" Muhammad Ali after Rumble In The Jungle. "That's cricket 'Arry" Frank Bruno after his first Tyson fight.

 

Three of my favorites:

1) Lt. Heavy Willie Pastrano was fighting in the Garden sometime in the 50's and and after going down for the second time in the round rose on unsteady legs and leaned against the ropes.
Ref: "Do you know where you are?"
Willie: "Hell yes, I'm in the middle of Madison Square Garden gettin' the **** kicked out of me!"
2) Ali-Frazier 1 middle rounds:
Ali: "Don't you know who I am, I'm God!"
Frazier: "Well, God's gonna get his ass kicked tonight!"
3) Joe Louis was fighting a contender (pretender) in the early forties and, in the first round, nailed him with a patent right hand on the money. The guy rose, turned to the ref, and said: "Hey Bob, why don't we take a walk up on the roof?" The fight was immediately stopped.
:rofl

 

Trainer overheard yelling at his losing fighter as they took the long walk back to the dressing room: "I told you in the dressing room 'please throw the left'! I told you before the fight 'please throw the left'! I told you between the rounds 'please throw the left'! Why you no throw the ****ing left?" Beaten fighter: "I dunno."

I love this sport!!!

 

When asked why he and his four brothers all became fighters, Fritzie ZIvic said, "Where we grew up you either fought or hid in the house. We went out."

 

George Chemeres - trainer of Greg Haugen: "We'll make sure they sign a half-a-david "

Reporter: "Whats a half a david"?

Chemeres "You know ...one of those legal documents".

 

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."
- Dan Duva, Boxing promoter, on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King


"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."
- Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota

Sure there have been injuries and even some deaths in boxing - but none of them really that serious."
Ringside Boxing Analyst

Marlon Starling: "I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right"

Willie Pep: "I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set -- and they're both working."
George Foreman: "Bob, I can't chase these guys anymore."
Bob Arum: "George, I cant put it in the contracts that they can't run."

Randall "Tex" Cobb: "If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass."

Tony Galento, when asked about Shakespeare: "I ain't never heard of him. I suppose he's one of them foreign heavyweights. They're all lousy. Sure as hell I'll moider de bum."

Joe Frazier, talking to Ken Norton at a social gathering.
Frazier: "Hey man, what you been doing?";
Norton: "My wife just had a baby.";
Frazier: "Congratulations! Whose baby is it?"

Willie Pep, talking to an old opponent years after each retired. "Do you recognize me?" the old opponent asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognize you."

Willie Pastrano, when asked by the ring doctor if he knew where he was: "You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the sh*t knocked out of me."


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?"

Blackie Sherrod, talking about a heavyweight contender: "He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts."

George Foreman: "The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters."


Max Baer, when asked for his definition of fear: "Standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early."

I was six foot one inch when I started fighting, but with all the uppercuts I'm up to six foot five inches.
Chuck Wepner

 

, Tony Galento was quite the character.

 

"When you're a historian, you know things, and you don't even know why you know them." Preparing for the day's sparring, greasing himself like a Channel swimmer and admiring the reflection in a long mirror, he sounds almost bookish, until Rooney turns up a copy of Plutarch's Lives and Tyson inquires archly, "Who wrote that? Rembrandt?"

 

"Honey..I forgot to duck" Jack Dempsey after losing his title to Gene Tunney. "A black day ? Oh yes ! It'll definitely be that" Muhammad Ali when told that Governor Maddox declared his end of boxing exile as a day of mourning. Ali was told by a reporter that a day of mourning meant a black day. "I box while I commentate" Muhammad Ali when asked if he'd go into boxing commentary after he retired.