"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like a infantile ******." Oh Tyson, you magnificent idiot
Classics, I also like when Tyson told Ruddick "after the fight Im going to make you my girlfriend". "The best punch I every threw was a backhand, she hit every wall in the ****ing room". Tyson taking about hitting Robin Givens, when asked what was the best punch he ever threw.
My favourite Frazier quote came during the middle rounds in Manilla. ALI: They told me you was washed up Joe. JOE: They lied to you champ.
Merchant: "Kelly, when you were down, give us your thought process" Kelly: "You really want to know what I thought? ****, this is gonna be a long night."
He certain brought a flavor to boxing that is all but gone today, he brought hevywieght boxing to the mainstream again. He was the Ali of his time, everybody watched guys like Ali and Tyson not just boxing fans. Just like Tyson once said "I could sell out madison square garden masturbating".
come on the king of all memorable quotes was Ali holding a toy gorilla and saying to the press "I'm going to beat the Gorilla....In Manilla" (Punches toy gorilla) That is pure marketing genius
Bobby Pacquiao's disqualification against Hector Velazquez "It was not a Blow Blow" -in very bad filipino english accent (it was not a low blow)
I forgot all about that. Prime Tyson v. Prime Ali in a Mouth Off could sell out the Garden, too. "I try to catch him right on the tip of the nose, because I try to push the bone into the brain." I think that one was just before he broke Jesse Ferguson's nose.
I dont know if you guys remember this one but its a personal favorite of mine, Lennox Lewis and Larry Merchant. After the Lewis/Vitali match, Lennox Lewis " I ate Vitali for lunch, bring on his brother ill eat him too", Larry said "that was a hard meal to digest Lennox". Watching that live was funny as hell.
Larry Holmes after dropping the SD to Spinks "You can kiss me where the sun don't shine, and since we're on HBO, that's my big black behind." Little bit of Ali there.