Boxer quotes thread

[JAB5239]

'Here's the situation as far as having the championship and losing it. You've always got to figure there might be somebody better. That's the way boxing is. The champion don't always stand up. There's always somebody coming up to take him.'
- James Braddock

[JAB5239]

'In boxing, if you think you will lose, you're already halfway there.'
- Lennox Lewis

[JAB5239]

'We don’t really know what fear is. Fear is something that we create in our own minds. Fear could be like fire. You can use it to heat you up, keep you warm, cook your food. There are so many things you can use it for. But if you allow it to go out of control, it will destroy you and everything around you.'
- Mike Tyson

[just the facts]

Buster Douglas when asked by Johnny Carson (I think) how he beat Mike Tyson. "I hit him fast, hard and most importantly often"

[Willie Pep 229]

"Fear is standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he want's to go home early." Max Baer

[JAB5239]

'There are three things that go on a fighter; first your reflexes go, then your chin goes and then your friends go.'
- Willie Pep

[JAB5239]

'The doctor said to me, 'Jake, if you don't stop drinking, you're going to lose your hearing.' I said, 'Doc, the stuff I'm drinking is better than the stuff I'm hearing.''
- Jake LaMotta

[JAB5239]

'We were born in the time period of the real fighters. If you compare today's boxers to the boxers like us from back in those days, these guys would have never won.'
- Roberto Duran

[JAB5239]

'If somebody tells you that after being champion you're not going to miss the attention, he's lying to you.'
- Rid**** Bowe

[JAB5239]

'Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.'
- George Foreman