Classic Boxing Quotes

I heard a great one on here before or on another boxing site.

Gene Fulmmer after he got knocked out by that classic left hook from SRR:
After getting up he asked:
"why is he jumping up and down like he's won ?
His trainer replied: "cause he knocked you out"

 

Bob Arum, replying to a reporters question. "Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth."

Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts: "To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other."

Bob Arum, after his fighter, Iran Barkley, beat Darrian Van Horn: "If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse."

Marlene Bugner, wife of Joe Bugner: "I don't know what impressive is, but Joe was impressive tonight."

Muhammad Ali: "It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am."

Mike Tyson, on fighting Lennox Lewis: "My main objective is to be professional, but to kill him."

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?"

Mark Kaylor: "I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time."

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

Muhammad Ali, when asked about his golf game: "I'm the best. I just haven't played yet."

Muhammed Ali: "There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up."

 

That's one of my favourites as well. Great quote.

"Your hotdog won't get cold." - Mike Tyson when asked how long a fight with Holyfield fight would last.

"Aw mama, I forgot to duck, that's all." - Leon Spinks after getting KO'd by Gerrie Coetzee.

"Oh my God, he hit so hard, like a ****ing mule kick." - Tyson on Razor Ruddock's power.

"George can still beat anyone, except me." - Ali after Rumble in the Jungle

"He hit me hard enough to knock me down, so I guess that's hard enough." - Joe Louis on whether Galento hit hard.

"If you even dream it, you should apologize" - Joe Louis to Muhammad Ali, who claimed he'd have whipped Joe.

"It looked like the whole of Harlem was in the ring that night." - Max Baer explaining his swimming vision when put down by Louis.

"It felt beautiful." - Floyd Patterson explaining what it felt like to be knocked out by Liston.

"My ear is sore!" -Vic Toweel's first words as champ after dethroning Manuel Ortiz for the bantamweight title.

"Everyone talks, now he's talking too." Julio Cesar Chavez before Hector Camacho fight.

"He made these wimpering sounds, like a woman." - Tyson describing Tyrell Biggs whenever he landed a body shot.

 

Gene actually stated in an interview (Boxing's Greatest Knockouts)

"They dragged me to a corner and when I came round, I said to my trainer:

"look at him dancing up and down between rounds, he is 37 years old!"

That is when my trainer said they had stopped the fight.

People always asked me whether it hurts when you get Ko'd? Well I got Ko'd once (by Robinson) and I did not feel a thing!"

 

Frank Bruno talking about tyson


He beat me the way my dad used to beat me.

 

Thnxs for setting the record straight:thumbsup

 

You also had the other famous Robinson quote about Burley...

Asked why he would not fight Burley he replied

"I'm too pretty"

 

"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 ******."

Iron Mike Tyson

 

No way. Marciano would lose.

 

Before his fight with Chavez, Greg Haugan disdained his record by asking "who'd he fight? Tijuana taxi drivers?"

After his beating, he was interviewed in the ring with a smiling Chavez standing beside him and was asked what he thinks now. Haugan: "those must have been some tough taxi drivers!"

 

Max Schmelling - "I zee somzing"
Joe Jacobs - "We wuz robbed"