Ten Curious Boxing Quotes

“I never missed it a bit when I walked away from it. When people quit and go back, quit and go back, then they get hurt. Once you retire, stay that way. Don’t go back” —the late Andy Kendall



“I truly believe that if I be myself and do what I know I can do, it doesn’t matter what Pacquiao does, We’re just going to set the tone and the pace and win the fight that way, just win it outright without having to worry about Pacquiao.” —Chris Algieri



“This ain’t a movie. It’s a fight.” —Freddie Roach



He [Roy Jones Jr.] was “Oscar Peterson with Boxing Gloves”—Larry Merchant



“He’s got a big mouth.” –Marvelous Marvin Hagler on Tony Sibson

“I don’t know where he got that from, unless he’s just using it to psych himself up…All I’ve said was that I’m excited about fighting him because I think he’s the best middleweight…–Sibson, mystified by Hagler’s quote.
“I used to wonder what would happen if I fought my twin…Now I know.”Arturo Gatti

These days, with most writers who regularly cover fights working on websites that pay starvation rates, too many have to do it as a hobby, or for the insider thrill of being at ringside. The result is that too often they write not like professionals but like fans or volunteer publicists.”–Carlos Rotella, Boston College Director of American Studies
The Ring, like so many enterprises in the global economy, ended up a small piece of a much larger business network [GBP], and it wasn’t terribly important to the owners who controlled its destiny. –Ivan Goldman

And my favorite: Boxing, more than any other professional sport, is rife with conflicts of interest.”—Thomas Hauser ;D

I love this one:

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

George Foreman.

Boxing is the only sport where get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book- Joe Frazier


And if you even dream of beating me you better wake up and apologize- Ali

Anything Teddy Atlas says.

I forget the fight but I remember a ref breaking two fighters up 3 times in the first minute then pushin them apart and shouting "break it up guys, i aint gon take no bullshit" it really made me laugh.

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Originally Posted by Vendettos

Anything Teddy Atlas says.

I forget the fight but I remember a ref breaking two fighters up 3 times in the first minute then pushin them apart and shouting "break it up guys, i aint gon take no bullshit" it really made me laugh.

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Probably Lewis v Akiwande and Mills Lane.

"I fuck he up"

The last thing I ever expected to hear. Maybe anyone expected to hear!

"No mas, no mas." Roberto Duran

Kovalev talking about Stevenson.

"He's a piece of shit!"

Didn't expect that one either. Lol

I'll eat your children....Mike Tyson.

Haugen and Camacho should get together and have hermaphrodite kids- Vinnie Pazienza

Something you might expect to hear in the sandbox at school, but not in a professional boxing match!

"I didn't bite his ear!" Mike Tyson