Your Favorite Boxing Quotes

[Sleepwalker]

Ali may dominate this thread. There have been some gems delivered by others...

"Keep your camera moving 'cause I'm kinda fast...." - Ali

"It only takes 10 seconds to win the title, but it took Larry Holmes 14 seconds to keep it." - Renaldo Snipes

"I wish I was 50 years younger and I would kick your ass." Larry Merchant.

[goti71]

I like this one:
"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it". George Goreman

[Master]

I like this one:
"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it". George Goreman

That is a sad one.

Boxing is like sex. The more you have it the less you appreciate it and start to wear women's underwear.

Oscar.

[Master]

Float like a butterfly sting like a bee – his hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.

It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.

I’m not the greatest. I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‘em out, I pick the round. I’m the boldest, the prettiest, the most superior, most scientific, most skillfullest fighter in the ring today.

[Xwetie]

"there's another day tomorrow"

"Arbete är ett hån mot friheten...en arbetare är en slav på deltid"

"You don't know me, but I know me."

"A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts"

[p4pking]

I like this one:
"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it". George Goreman

I never liked this quote because it just isn't true, a lot of the most recognized and appreciated names in Jazz are also among the very best, and what the hell would George Foreman know about it

[Spicoli]

"When I got up I stuck to my plan -- stumbling forward and getting hit in the face." Tex Cobb on the Holmes fight.

"Standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early" Max Baer asked to define fear.

"I'll shake hands with Arum but I'll take my ring off first" Duff on Arum

"It didn't surprise me to see a picture of him running through a cemetery though. That's where he's been digging up his opponents" Greg Haugen on Pazienza

"I'd taken my lumps and bumps. Hearns hadn't. That's how the hit man became the hurt man" Hagler after the fight.

"Shakespeare? I ain't never heard of him. He's not in no ratings. I suppose he's one of them foreign heavyweights. They're all lousy. Sure as hell I'll moider dat bum" Tony Galento

"Sometimes you eat steak, sometimes you just eat cheese" Alex Garcia after being ko'd and losing payday vs Foreman. Look on his face was priceless

[mikeeod]

1. "So, what time will the champ be expecting me? I don't want to keep him waiting." Chuck Wepner's wife after he told her to buy some nice lingerie since she would be sleeping with the champ that night (Wepner lost to Ali by late stoppage).
2. "I'm not the best, I'm the guy looking to fight the best." Glen Johnson after knocking out Roy Jones jr.
3. "If they cut my bald head open they would find a boxing glove." Marvin Hagler.
4. "How many guesses do I get?" Heavyweight club fighter response to the doctor asking how many fingers he was holding up during a 1990 match up.
5. 'The referee is the most important man in the ring tonight, besides the two fighters." George Foreman during his commentating days.

[Silkeyjoe]

"What was the problem?"

"I broke my back!"

"What do you mean by that?"

"My back is broken!"

"A vetebtate? What part?"

"Spinal!"

Note a quote per say but loved this post fight interview

[Sleepwalker]

^How can I leave out the engrossing Iron Mike:

"I'm gonna fade into Bolivian"

[Master]

I was gonna rip his heart out. I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He’s no Alexander! I’m Alexander! I’m the best ever. I’m Sonny Liston. I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s never been anyone like me. I’m from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I’m the ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!

[SlimTrae]

"Honey I forgot to duck"
Jack Dempsey

"If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass."
Randall Cobb

[frasd]

“The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It’s the same thing, fear, but it’s what you do with it that matters.” – Legendary trainer, Cus D’Amato

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." Tyson

"Fatigue Makes Cowards of Us All" Originally by Lombardi or Patton but I heard Holmes say it once i believe.

[SlimTrae]

I mentioned this quote of SRR before. Reflecting on youth, prime and downfall.



When asked about his declining skills:


"The fighter himself is the first to know it. You find you have to think your punches. The punches you use to throw without thinking, you now have to reason.

It is something that happens to all of us once the instinctive inventions and discoveries have been made. Then we reach back into the library of our experience, and what was once the product of inspiration is now merely the result of reason."


Now that's some scientific talk there:
Sugar Ray Robinson

[Sleepwalker]

Sugar Ray would rule the world today.

A highly intelligent, well-rounded, and versatile person in and outside the ring.