HELP WANTED: Epic Quotes

I always liked the Dempsey quote - All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

 

BUT teh only good thinker he ever fought was Tunney, And what happened there??:hey

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Foreman Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooook!:rasta

 

The old timers call the left hook the unseen punch for it come out of nowhere and knocks you senseless.
And the toughest left Hooker of them all is life followed closely by Charlie White of Chicago
Ernest Hemingway

 

Interviewer: "and why do they call you the Mad Cow?"

Fighter: "because I'm a horse"

 

Max Baer said on fight day (also joe,s wedding day ) (FEAR IS STANDING ACROSS THE RING FROM JOE LOUIS KNOWING HE WANTS TO GO HOME EARLY)

 

Mike were you really sick this week? What was the problem?

Tyson: I broke my back

What do youmean by that?

Tyson: My back is broken

A vertebrae or what portion?

Tyson: Spinal

 

'Boxing will die when I leave'

Muhammad Ali (1967)


'He wants to eat steak, but I'm going to make sure he still eats beans after this fight.'

Claude Noel, before he got knocked out by Arturo Frias.

 

In a life or death situation, only then will you find out what you are truly capable of.

 

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

"He hit you with a pretty good left, Joe."
"Yeah, well I hit him with my right also." - Joe Louis after Galento fight.

"Don't holla at me momma, I just lost the fight, that's all" - Leon Spinks after getting Ko'd by Gerrie Coetzee

 

"What the mind can concieve, the body can achieve." - Ken Norton

 

Larry Merchant talking to George Foreman.

Larry,,,,,'George tell me,,,,, what was your most difficult obstacle.'

George,,,,'Negotiating through traffic at the Krisy Kreme drive-thru at noon.'

 

"Hey Carmen! We asked 10 boxing writers who will win the fight and 8 of them said Robinson. What do say to that?"

"8 of them are wrong!"

the great carmen basilio on his upcoming SRR fight

 

"I fought Sugar so many times that I'm lucky I didn't
get diabetes." ~ Jake LaMotta

"I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals
were swinging him around by his heels at the time." ~ Randall "Tex"
Cobb

"I really dig Hannibal. Hannibal had real guts. He rode elephants into Cartilage." ~ Mike Tyson

"When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy nonesense - people shouldn't read that stuff." ~ Mike Tyson

"My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person." ~ Mike Tyson