Quotes from fights, that made you laugh

"My feets are frozen." - Bernard Hopkins

"I could sell out MSG masterbating." - Mike Tyson

Sorry, not in ring quotes, hope they do.

 

Jake lamota " the 3 best fighters I've fought are sugar ray Robinson , sugar ray Robinson and sugar ray Robinson. I've fought sugar so much, I'm surprised I haven't got diabetes "

 

A couple gems from Mike:

"I broke my back."

"I might just fade into Bolivian."

 

Roberto Duran:

To the Viruet brothers after having beaten Adolfo, and having previously beaten Edwin: "Next time, your father!"

 

During WW2, during the bouts at St Nicks Arena, Harry Balogh the famous boxing announcer said while pretty young women were soliciting the crowd for funds for War Bonds for our war effort, " Ladies and gentleman, pretty young girls are walking around the audience with their pretty young boxes, please give til it hurts "....The crowd roared in laughter at this and next day
his faux pas was in all the newspapers...

 

....a pre fight quote: When bernie reynols drove his car to the cincinnati gardens he told the guy in charge of parking, , "just leave it here in front. i won't be there long.

....and ezzard charles knocked him out in the third round.

 

re cobra...yah, that's a good one. it ws eddie simms in cleveland....in about 20 seconds of the first round he got hit by one terriic punch by joe louis, he turned to referee arthur donavan and something like, "let's get out of here. i'll go anywhere you say. how about taking a walk on the roof." donavan stopped it right then.

 

I never tire of reading Cobb's quotes.

 

"It looked like the whole of Harlem was there." Max Baer relives getting knocked down by Joe Louis.

 

Tex Cobb on moving to Philly and how he learned it was a real fight town:

I saw two winos fighting in the street and they were hooking off the jab.

 

Howard Cosell told Ali in an interview that Ali was being truculent:

Ali: "Whatever truculent means, if it's good I'm that."

 

Not directly from a fight but my favourite Robinson Quote "You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid"

 

Here's the Cobb quote that upset Snipes, as I remember it -

Cobb - "I'm proud to be sitting here with some of the baddest (n-word)'s on the planet."

Snipes - "I'm not going to sit here and be called a (n-word)!"

Cobb - "I wasn't talking about you, Snipes. I was talking about the bad ones."

Cobb was obviously a fun-loving, quick-witted guy who held genuine respect for the other gentlemen in the room. But I've got to give kudos to Snipes for speaking up.

 

Did Cobb ever bring a book out?

 

A friend of mine went on a fishing trip with Cobb years back. I can only remember laughing my ass off at the stories he told about Tex. So jealous.