"Clay can keep his pretty face. I don't want it. I'm just going to rip his kidneys out! Joe Frazier

"I zigged when i should have zagged" Jack Dempsey

"I admit he used to get to me. It got worse and worse and when he said something to me, I spat in his face. I didn't want to punch him because I might have hurt my hand and nobody was paying me - but I had to do something" Lloyd Honeyghan (on Marlon Starling)

"No running, no hiding from no one. You stand there and you fight till the blood run in your shoes. But donlt you run" Beau Jack

"He's gonna need an industrial strength toothpick to pick the leather out of his teeth. I'm gonna hit this man so hard he's gonna grwo an afro. The only way he's gonna get close to me is if he wets both his lips - cos they're as big as a plunger - and sticks them on my chest" Micheal Olajide (on Iran Barklay)