Boxer quotes thread

[JAB5239]

'In that world you dealt drugs, stole, or worked as a hit man. Boxing is what saved me. I trained hard and never once used drugs or even smoked a cigarette.'
- Edwin Valero

[Anthony342]

'In that world you dealt drugs, stole, or worked as a hit man. Boxing is what saved me. I trained hard and never once used drugs or even smoked a cigarette.'
- Edwin Valero

No, but he beat and killed his wife, the POS.

[JAB5239]

'I was very happy the way I finished my career. There's no one out there that can say I ducked them. We gave everyone an opportunity to dethrone me and prove who was a better fighter.'
- Marvelous Marvin Hagler

[JAB5239]

'That moment when you're being introduced, man, that's a boxer's moment of truth. You're all by yourself then. It's too late for anyone to help you, and what's worse, it's too late to help yourself.'
- Sugar Ray Robinson

[JAB5239]

'When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.'
- Muhammad Ali

[JAB5239]

'I do love boxing, and it's in me, and boxing's been great for me, and I feel I've been great for boxing. I feel that I came along and put a little sparkle into it and added something different.'

- Naseem Hamed

[JAB5239]

'When I was a boy in Gary, I would always get into fights. At the age of six, we moved to East Chicago, and I got into a fight after school one day. My father, fed up with my fighting, took me to a boxing gym to keep me off the streets.'
- Angel Manfredy

[Willie Pep 229]

'That moment when you're being introduced, man, that's a boxer's moment of truth. You're all by yourself then. It's too late for anyone to help you, and what's worse, it's too late to help yourself.'
- Sugar Ray Robinson

Two things come to mind with this quote . . . It was his group of followers that caused the french word 'entourage' to come into common use in the American lexicon, he always had an entourage with him, so I guess he would never feel alone until that moment. -- He was notorious for pulling out of fights at the last minute and on at least one occasion refused to leave his dressing room - in his mind (and the media's after a while) he was probably never really committed until that moment.

On entourage: the story goes (who knows if it's true) that he entered a ballroom in Paris and a bell hop introduced his entrance with: "Mr. Robinson and his entourage." SRR loved it and fed it to the American press. So the story goes.

[JAB5239]

Two things come to mind with this quote . . . It was his group of followers that caused the french word 'entourage' to come into common use in the American lexicon, he always had an entourage with him, so I guess he would never feel alone until that moment. -- He was notorious for pulling out of fights at the last minute and on at least one occasion refused to leave his dressing room - in his mind (and the media's after a while) he was probably never really committed until that moment.

On entourage: the story goes (who knows if it's true) that he entered a ballroom in Paris and a bell hop introduced his entrance with: "Mr. Robinson and his entourage." SRR loved it and fed it to the American press. So the story goes.

I never heard any of that before. Great stuff, thank you!

[JAB5239]

'I was raised in St. Louis with my five brothers. We were all athletic, but me and Michael were the only ones to use our abilities. The others never pursued their dreams.'
- Leon Spinks