Favorite Boxing Quotes...........Post yours here !!!!!!!!

"i never heard of da guy but i'll moider da bum" two ton tony galento pre fight press conference against joe louis when asked if he'd heard of william shakespeare!

 

Reg Gutteridge on Eubanks' rope hopping entrance

"The Ego has landed"

 

"My God, kids today think that the laces are for tying up the gloves." - Fritzie Zivic

"If I'm the poster boy for steroids, steroids is going out of business." - James Toney

"I only have to read Joe Louis' name and my nose starts to bleed again." - Tommy Farr

"Me and Jake LaMotta grew up in the same neighbourhood. You wanna know how popular Jake was? When we played hide and seek, nobody ever looked for LaMotta." - Rocky Graziano

 

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They are brilliant.

The sad thing about Zivic is he's 100% serious there :yep

 

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Inside cover of Amir Khan's Biography.

"Amir has been compared to Sugar Ray Robinson, but still lives with his mum, dad, brother and 2 sisters in Bolton":nut

"Here he tells his story: a boy from Bolton who just happens to be a world-class boxer".

Foreword by Barry McGuigan - "Amir Khan is as good as any I have witnessed, as good as Floyd Mayweather Jnr, as good as Oscar De La Hoya".atsch

 

The quotes have obviously been taken out of context the original statements said this:

Amir has been compared to Sugar Ray Robinson

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his mum, dad, brother and 2 sisters in Bolton

Here he tells his story: a boy from Bolton who just happens to be a world-class

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boxer

Amir Khan is as good

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as any I have witnessed, as good as Floyd Mayweather Jnr, as good as Oscar De La Hoya

 

"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it." - George Foreman

"I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early." - Max Baer

"My toughest fight was with my first wife." - Muhammad Ali

"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining." - Sonny Liston

"I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm." - Mike Tyson

And my favourite:

"If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. " - Gene Tunney

 

Jesus, never heard these quotes before! You have tempted me into getting this book.

 

"Chris Eubank used to take his hardest shots in between rounds" - John Rawling

 

Pardon my ignorance but is the Zivic quote about him being a dirty fighter and using the laces on gloves to rub in an opponents face? If not I have no idea wtf he is on about and please explain the quote to me.

 

"Herol Graham has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever got knocked out by a poem." Eddie Shaw

"My girlfriend boos when we make love because she knows it turns me on. " Hector Camacho

"I'm going down so often these days you'd think I was making a blue movie." John Conteh After his heavy defeat by Matthew Saad Muhammad

 

Yep, Zivic was one of the dirtiest fighters ever.