Great quotes from the world of boxing

"If I hurt your feelings, so ****in' what!" Larry Holmes

 

"...and then i slipped" - Ricky Hatton after just being knocked out by Floyd.

 

Vic Darchinyan- I wasn't hurt. I was fine. I wasn't even knocked down that badly.

Joel Casamayor after Michael Katsidis had knocked him through the ring ropes in their fight-I just slipped.

 

"The man who views the world the same way at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." Ali


And I think we have a winner!

 

Larry Merchant commentating on Mike Tyson as he walks towards the ring "Its like hes on a date.And hes idea of a date is wham bam thank you sir."

 

"I'd never let a white boy beat me!" - You know who before you know what!

 

"Adrian!"

 

No son legales?-Margarito

 

"I must break you" :bbb

 

"2 4 6 8 10!" Joe Cortez counting out Ricky Hatton

 

"Not being born to parents who were accountants was probably my biggest mistake"
"nigel Benn is like washing-up liquid: built on hype and one day the bubble will burst. "
chris eubank


"If all the British heavyweights were laid end to end, we wouldn't be surprised"
Anon

On rumours that Oliver McCall failed to provide a drug test urine sample after his defeat by Frank Bruno - Anyone who studied McCall's contribution to the fight would not have been surprised that he failed to hit a sample tube with the required amount afterwards. Bruno, of course, had no such trouble. He is well used to having the **** taken out of him by his fellow countrymen.
steve coogan

On his shaven head- With four sisters about the house, I could never get my hands on a comb.
marvelous

He looks up at him through blood smeared lips
Harry Carpenter

Marvellour oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue
Harry Carpenter

It's not one of Bruno's fastest wins... but it's one of them
Harry Carpenter

I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight
Mark Kaylor

This boxer doing what's expected of him, bleeding from the nose
Harry Carpenter

He's got a cut on his left eye... it's just below his eyebrow
Harry Carpenter

I had Bernard Taylor five rounds ahead going into their fifth round
Alan Minter

Pedroza - the crown on his headhanging by a thread.
Harry Carpenter

No fighter comes into the ring hoping to win - he goes in hoping to win
Henry Cooper

They said it would last two rounds - they were half right, it lasted four
Harry Carpenter

Standing there making a sitting target of himself
Terry Lawless

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing hald the time
Mark Kaylor

The Mexicans... these tiny little men from South America
Harry Carpenter

Now it comes to a simple equation - who can stand the heat
Harry Carpenter

The question looming over Magri, is not will he keep the title, but can he ?
Harry Carpenter

I don't know what impressive is, but Joe was impressive tonight
Marlene Bugner

It has made the richest prize in sport the richest prize in sport
Joe Bugner

Magri has to do well against the unknown Mexican who comes from a famous family of five boxing brothers
Harry Carpenter

I can only see it going one way, that's my way. How it's actually going to go I can't really say.
Nick Wilshire

 

nice one but you kinda ruined the whole thing with SIR at the end I'm pretty sure he said "wham bam thank you MAM.. at least it rhymes better :good

 

Most of them were ****

 

No Merchant said sir. Even better than the quote is the reaction from Sugar Ray Leonard who immediately starts laughing.