Boxer quotes thread

[Anthony342]

To the best of my recollection Louis was talking about the Conn rematch. And I believe it was Rid**** Bowe who said that about Hide, which was hysterical.

I guess Conn couldn't hide, since Louis knocked him out even sooner in the rematch. And that's funny about the Rid**** Bowe quote, which he backed up as well, since he knocked out Hide.

[travestyny]

"They wanted to give me one-third of the revenue, but I said I should have at least one-fourth."
— Ingemar Johansson

No, Ingo never said it. It was a comedian who regularly used the quote when he imitated Ingo in his shows.
As the joke spread, people started to believe it was Ingo’s own words, and the poor fellow had to live with it.
Still today, there are ‘funny and ****** quotes’-books which claim that Ingo said at.

lol. That's terrible, but funny.

[billeau2]

" Master Cribb is the most quarrelsome man in all of England, and, he is a fighting man and I am a fighting man. If I punch him in the head and he punches me in the head, what's that to anyone else? So what is the point in talking about bail?" - John Kendrick.


Jack Dempsey tells a funny, sad, but funny tale about one of his favorite sparring partners early from his career. Kid Blackie era I reckon. So this is a double with boxer quotes and a bonus wife quote, kinda:

"Rufus Cameron had been having trouble with his wife for years. Ruf was hauled into court on wife beating charges. She was the complaining witness with two black eyes, a swollen ear, and a cut face. 'Rufus has been beating me for years' the wife testified 'I just can't stand no more. I want you to put him away for a while'. The judge listened patiently then summoned Rufus. 'You heard your wife' says the judge 'What have you got to say for yourself?' Rufus, cool as a cucumber, replies 'Don't pay no mind to her judge, she's punch-drunk' " - Jack Dempsey

I cant find the emoticons! LOL

[JAB5239]

'You're not always in the right spot at the right time, and that happened to me. I was licked quite a few times. I lost about 21 fights all together out of 80-some-odd. That's boxing. You get the breaks and you don't get the breaks. If you get the breaks you're in there, you're up on the top, but if you don't you're on the bottom. I was more or less always the underdog. It didn't make no difference to me.'

- James 'Cinderella Man' Braddock

[JAB5239]

'Throughout my life, each setback prepared me for a greater triumph.'

- Sugar Ray Robinson

[JAB5239]

"I made a lot of money from those fights but more than that I made a great friend and we'll go down in history as one of the great trilogies in boxing.

"I was just so fortunate when he was living to be able to fight him and say he was my friend because he was a great person, a great champion and just a great guy."

- Micky Ward on Arturo Gatti

[JAB5239]

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

[JAB5239]

‘My girlfriend boos when we make love because she knows it turns me on.’
 Hector Camacho

[JAB5239]

‘Me and Jake LaMotta grew up in the same neighbourhood. You wanna know how popular Jake was? When we played hide and seek, nobody ever looked for LaMotta.’
 Rocky Graziano

[JAB5239]

'Let me tell you that Sam Langford hit harder by accident than most heavyweights did on purpose. There never lived a hitter like Langford.'

- Harry Wills