Boxer quotes thread

[JAB5239]

'Boxing is my business, and I enjoy my business.'

- Sugar Ray Robinson

[Ben Bolt]

The Ring: "He smelled of rotten tuna and a tub of old liquor being sweated out."

Max Baer, complaining about Tony Galento, who was known for refusing to bathe in the days leading up to the fight.

[JAB5239]

My victories are small and few,

It matters not how hard I strive,

Each day the fight begins anew,

But fighting keeps my hopes alive.

-"Sporty" Harvey

[JAB5239]

'People ask me what I'd do differently the second time around, and I tell them, 'nothing.' I don't do regrets. Why? Because nobody is born knowing what's going to happen. Only God knows that. But I'm happy.'

- Roberto Duran

[billeau2]

pretext for quote: Bauer is getting manhandled by Louis, comes back to corner frustrated... Corner wanting to be positive tells Max: "Thataboy Maxi! your knockin him good, and he can't do nuthin' to ya!" Maxi look at his corner and says "Then you guys better watch the ref because someone is beating the s hit out of me!"

[JAB5239]

pretext for quote: Bauer is getting manhandled by Louis, comes back to corner frustrated... Corner wanting to be positive tells Max: "Thataboy Maxi! your knockin him good, and he can't do nuthin' to ya!" Maxi look at his corner and says "Then you guys better watch the ref because someone is beating the s hit out of me!"

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[billeau2]

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Bauer always had a great sense of humor. His quote about two ton was another classic, the one in this thread.

Here is a true story about Gallento:

Jacky Gleason tells this story and swore by it. Apparently Gleason was doing a act somewhere when this portly guy walks in and really starts being obnoxious. So Gleason calls an intermission and tells the guy: "Listen if you don't like the act, we can go outside and Ill accomodate you (codeword for lets wreck!). Gleason says the last thing he remembers is people around him wiping his face asking if he is ok. Turns out that the troll that day was none other than Two Ton Toney.

[billeau2]

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Jab

Somethng with the new system: It will not let me edit the last post lol. I meant to say Gleason "swore" by it as he has left us some time ago...

[SeboPlus]

Boxers may be really smart people unless they weren't hit in a head couple of times, lol

[Marchegiano]

“Write this down, he can’t fight. If I don’t lick him, take my name out of the record books.” - JJ Walcot

I have a record of sorts of an ancient match told by Theocritus

POLYDEUKES: Good day, stranger, whoever you are. What people are they who own this land?

AMYKOS: Good day? How can the day be good when it brings to me men I never saw before?

POLYDEUKES: Do not be afraid. We are not evil men, nor were our fathers before us.

AMYKOS: I'm not afraid, and I'm not likely to learn to be afraid from the likes of you.

POLYDEUKES: Are you completely uncultured, always perverse and sneering?

AMYKOS: I am what you see, and I'm not trespassing on your land.

POLYDEUKES: Oh, well, come along with us and you will return home again with gifts of friendship.

AMYKOS: I don't want any gifts, and I've none for you.

POLYDEUKES: Well, may we at least have a drink of this water?

AMYKOS: You'll find out when you're a lot thirstier than now.

POLYDEUKES: If you want money just say how much.

AMYKOS: I want you to put up your dukes and fight me like a man.

POLYDEUKES: In boxing? Or may we kick each other's legs, too, and ...

AMYKOS: Shut up, put'em up, and do your damnedest.

POLYDEUKES: Wait! Is there a prize for which we will fight?

AMYKOS: If you win, you beat me, and if I win, I beat you.

POLYDEUKES: Game****s fight on such terms.

AMYKOS: I don't give a damn if we look like game****s or lions. You wanted a prize, and that's it.

And this cute little clip:

And one from Philon son of Glaukos...which is basically the quote already

“My fatherland is Korkyra and my name is Philon. I am the son of Glaukos, and I won two Olympia victories for boxing.”

Figg:

"Found?!" exclaimed Figg, laughing heartily, "aye, my masters, plenty; but I don't know, d'ye see, as how that'ere's truth about his breaking so many of his countrymen jawbones with his fist? Howsomever, that's no matter, he can't break Bob Whittaker's jawbone if he had a sledge-hammer in his hand. If Bob must knock under, why, before this here outlandish waterman shall rule the roast, I'll give him a Figg to chew, which, perhaps, he'll find some trouble in swallowing."

Bob Whitaker (Champion not recognized by CBZ but was in his time):

"Dam'me, I am not yet beat, but what signifies when I cannot see my man?!"

Daniel Mendoza:

“This battle, which first brought me into public notice, laid the foundation of the fame I afterwords enjoyed; the spirit and resolution I displayed throughout a contest with an antagonist of such superior strength, excited the general applause of the spectators.”

and

“I now felt confident that even though he was my superior in strength and size, I was fully equal to him in activity and knowledge of the art of pugilism.”

And that's all I've found on my PC atm.