Funniest Boxing Quotes

"I saw Foreman shadow-boxing. The shadow won." Ali

Ali "Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked."

Dan Duva, on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King: " Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton." Willie Pastrano, when asked by the ring doctor if he knew where he was: "You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the shit knocked out of me." Mike Gibbons: "Let's dance around for the first couple of rounds then in the 3rd round I'll let you knock me down." Tom Gibbons: "Sounds good Mike. When do you get to knock me down?" Mike: "Anytime I feel like it." -Mike and Tom Gibbons at a boxing exhibition. Story from members of the Gibbons family. I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my bedroom and was in bed before the room was dark." -Muhammad Ali

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him. -- Mike Tyson (on Fighting Lennox Lewis, 2002) Taft Corbett, on Evander Holyfield's chin: "If I fought Evander with a baseball bat, I would win the fight, but it would be by decision."\ Willie Pep: "I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set -- and they're both working."

Mike Tyson is a goldmine of ridiculous utterings. "I broke my back." nothing beats that tyson is top 5 easy with best funniest boxing quotes ever

“Look at this body, ... Do I look like I use steroids?” -James Toney

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v129/kowarrior/vitalicut.jpg "I saw all the right hands coming"

One of the funniest out there: (Carbs on his up and coming fight with Humberto Gonzalez) Reporter: How are you going to fight this fight? Michael Carbajal: You know i'm just gonna go in there and relax and keep cool....and just outbox the shit out of him.

I wish some of you guys had fucking kids so I could stomp on their testicles and kick them in their fucking heads so that you could feel my pain. -Mike Tyson talking to interviewers.

When asked after the fight how he felt about overcoming a knock down to beat Evander Holyfield for the title, Michael Moorer replied: "When you the man who beat the man who was the man... well, then you the MAN"

Mike Tyson is a goldmine of ridiculous utterings. "I broke my back." im pretty sure that at the end of his career mike tyson spent more time practicing crazy vocabulary to spout to reporters to hype a fight than he actually did training for them.... i can just see him staring into a mirror practicing over and over again "i wish you had children so i can stop on their f*ckin testicles and make them feel my pain"

“I'm not God - but I am something similar.” Roberto Duran “My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.” Mike Tyson “I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.” Mike Tyson called me a "rapist" and a "recluse." I'm not a recluse. Mike Tyson “I fought Sugar so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes.” Jake LaMotta “If I'm in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.” Bernard Hopkins

Joe Frazier, talking to Ken Norton at a social gathering. Frazier: "Hey man, what you been doing?"; Norton: "My wife just had a baby."; Frazier: "Congratulations! Whose baby is it?" Willie Pep, talking to an old opponent years after each retired. "Do you recognize me?" the old opponent asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognize you." Henry Cooper, replying to boxing abolitionist, Baroness Edith Summerskill, about the brutalities of his sport. Baroness: "Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?" Cooper: "Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?" Alan Minter: "Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious." Randall "Tex" Cobb: "When I got up I stuck to my plan -- stumbling forward and getting hit in the face." Tex Cobb, responding to a reporter who said Cobb was a fat, cocaine snorting , drunk. Cobb replied: "I'm not fat. George Foreman: "The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters."

Mike Tyson is a goldmine of ridiculous utterings. "I broke my back."