Boxer quotes thread

[billeau2]

'I like travelling because it gives me a chance to meet people and see different things. There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you. No one else looks the same. Everyone has two eyes and a nose and mouth and ears, but the way they're arranged makes their faces different. No two people are the same. Ain't that amazing? Billions of people, and every one of them is special.'

- Muhammad Ali

yu remind me of another Ali Quote...

"I ain't gonna kill no Viet Cong, what I got against them people?"

[billeau2]

'I was a miner and I was a cowboy but mostly I was a hobo. I fought wherever I could, in school halls, outside saloons, any place they were putting up a purse. I once walked thirty miles across the desert to a town called Goldfield in Nevada so I could fight for twenty dollars.

I got beat a lot. I improved. But I remember the beatings I took. Once I got beat so bad they had to take me out of the ring in a wheelbarrow. Later some said I was a killer in the ring. They got that wrong. I killed nobody. But I took out other guys quick. That much is true. I got more one round knockouts than anybody, sixty knockouts in the first round.

I beat a good Heavyweight in New Orleans once in fourteen seconds. I knocked out Fred Fulton, six-foot-four, 250 pounds, in nineteen seconds. How come? Not because I was a killer. Other way round. I was always afraid that I'd be the one who was killed. Get 'em quick and you live to fight another day.'

- Jack Dempsey

Goldfield back in those days was a happening place... It is now a Ghost town with a very haunted hotel/saloon. But in Kid Blackey's time, it would have been a real hot spot.

[JAB5239]

'War. That's what's on my mind. I feed the faith and starve the doubt.'

- Marvin Hagler

[JAB5239]

'If I could find a boxer as good as Howard Winstone I would make millions. He's the nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep.'

- Angelo Dundee

I hadn't heard of Winstone before and had to look him up. He had some decent wins going 1-1 with Jose Legra, and 0-3 against the great Vincente Saldivar with their second fight being a close loss.

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[JAB5239]

'In the streets, I hit you with a stick, brick and bottle - anything I could get my hands on, and kicked you when you were down. It was known as survival. My mother taught me, 'You'd better not come back crying.' She raised us up by herself, without a father. I still don't talk back to her.'

- Marvin Hagler

#mothersday

[The Old LefHook]

Art Hafey is the best little man I have ever seen.--

Angelo Dundee.

[JAB5239]

'He had heavy hands and was very strong. He could knock you out with either hand. He had the balls, the heart, and the mind to win. He was ambidextrous. I consider Marvin one of the best that I fought. And I fought in the golden era of boxing.' - Sugar Ray Leonard

'I hit Hagler with a lot of punches and he just kept coming. I didn’t find him as skillful as some of the opponents I faced but he was the toughest.' - Roberto Duran

'I hit him with everything but the kitchen sink. He continued and kept coming forward. I moved him but he just kept coming forward.' - Thomas Hearns

'His timing was first class, when he threw a punch he got you. He wouldn’t throw and miss and he wouldn’t be out of distance. He was very heavy-handed.' - Alan Minter

'My power would have woken up ancestors of other fighters I fought when I connected with the uppercut, but he barely wobbled after the punch landed.' - John Mugabi

'He truly was one of the greatest fighters to step into the ring. When he retired, they finally gave him the credit he deserved as one of the greatest middleweights of all-time. To have the opportunity to fight him twice, I think was an honour.' - Mustafa Hamsho

'Hagler knew all the tricks. He made it difficult to fight him because he was a southpaw and he was also tough. He could pick a punch, then he switched on you while you were fighting him southpaw style.' - Vito Antuofermo

[JAB5239]

'Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.'

- Joe Louis

[JAB5239]

'I’ve been fighting all my life, so I know what it’s like to catch a punch. You don’t think I got this face being a ballet dancer, do you?'

- Lou Duva

[Anthony342]

'Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.'

- Joe Louis

Reminds me of that quote one of the Petronellis mentioned from Hagler going into the Hearns fight on Legendary Nights when he mentioned the size of Hearns' entourage and all the noise coming from Hearns' dressing room. The younger one said that Marvin said about Hearns "He can't bring all those people into the ring with him"