Famous trainer quotes

"Hit him hard, and keep hitting him....until he goes down" Chappie Blackburn (Joe Louis' trainer)

 

"Go away kid, you,re no boxer" John Stevens ( charlie zellenoff ,s trainer )

 

"Triple the jab" McGirt (training Gatti vs Floyd Jr)

 

"Aim for the one in the middle"

(Dundee to Sugar Ray Leonard when he returned to his corner claiming he had treble vision)

 

"Out of town is out of town"

Freddie Brown when informed his fighter was fighting on foreign soil.

 

"either you leave this dressing room now to fight Joe Louis , or you fight ME" now.
Jack Dempsey telling a reluctant Max Baer nervous to fight the young Brown Bomber...

 

He's a fackin old man .micky duff to lang in the Duran fight.

 

He might have been better off taking the fight with Dempsey under the circumstances!

 

"Ring sense is an art, a gift from God that flows out of a fighter like a great painting flows out of an artist, or a great book flows out of an author."


"I never considered myself a trainer, I considered myself a teacher."


Ray Arcel

 

I think that was Mickey in Rocky


Michael Moorer coming back to the corner in the first Holyfield fight, only for Teddy Atlas to be sitting on the stool and suggesting he (Atlas) might be better off fighting Holyfield.

 

"Aim for the one in the middle" has been used by several trainers down thru the ages.

 

Ray Arcel on Duran "No Mas":

"I don't know what happened," said Ray Arcel. "Maybe his arm went, maybe his head went, maybe it was frustration, I just don't know."