Boxer quotes thread

[Anthony342]

"He can Herbie but he can't Hide"-Lennox Lewis

[Silence]

“Where’s Oleksandr Usyk, the rabbit? Hey, rabbit! Usyk, you’re next, you little b!tch! You’re next! You are next! Me and you, sucker, next! Me and you! You’re getting it, little sucker! Rabbit! pussy! Look at him, 15 stone, little midget beat a bodybuilder.

“Well, I ain’t no bodybuilder, sucker. I’m gonna write you off. I already done one Ukrainian, Klitschko, didn’t I? And I'll do you as well, gappy teeth, you ugly, little man. You ugly little man, let’s get it on next! Let’s get it on you as well. You may laugh now, but I will end this little sucker. End you! End you! End you!”.

- The Gypsy King

[JAB5239]

'I wanted to get punished and I made unnecessary punishment when I was fighting. I didn't realise it but subconsciously I was trying to punish myself. Subconsciously - I didn't know it then, I realise it today when I know a little bit more about the brain - I fought like I didn't deserve to live.'

- Jake LaMotta

[kara]

'I wanted to get punished and I made unnecessary punishment when I was fighting. I didn't realise it but subconsciously I was trying to punish myself. Subconsciously - I didn't know it then, I realise it today when I know a little bit more about the brain - I fought like I didn't deserve to live.'

- Jake LaMotta

I. Like. This!

[JAB5239]

"I'm a monster. I don't like my opponent. I only have one thing on my mind, and that's destruction - to get him the hell out of there."

-Marvelous Marvin Hagler

[Anthony342]

"I'm a monster. I don't like my opponent. I only have one thing on my mind, and that's destruction - to get him the hell out of there."

-Marvelous Marvin Hagler

That didn't seem to be Hagler's mentality in the Leonard fight. He fought conventional instead of southpaw and way was too tentative in too many rounds. He could've used that monster mentality that night.

[JAB5239]

"I heard somethin' once. When somebody asked a marathon runner what goes through his mind in the last mile or two, he said that you ask yourself, 'Why am I doin' this?' You get so tired. It takes so much out of you mentally. It changes you. It makes you go a little insane. I was thinkin' that at the end. Why am I doin' this? What am I doin' in here against this beast of a man? It's so painful. I must be crazy. I always bring out the best in the men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him."

-Muhammad Ali

[kara]

"I heard somethin' once. When somebody asked a marathon runner what goes through his mind in the last mile or two, he said that you ask yourself, 'Why am I doin' this?' You get so tired. It takes so much out of you mentally. It changes you. It makes you go a little insane. I was thinkin' that at the end. Why am I doin' this? What am I doin' in here against this beast of a man? It's so painful. I must be crazy. I always bring out the best in the men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him."

-Muhammad Ali

Good find!

[QueensburyRules]

That didn't seem to be Hagler's mentality in the Leonard fight. He fought conventional instead of southpaw and way was too tentative in too many rounds. He could've used that monster mentality that night.

- - Marv had a healthy ego that told him he was a better boxer than Ray and was gonna prove it. He forgot about the judges...c'est la vie...

[JAB5239]

“Langford is consistent,has the punch,knows the game and could whip them all right now,one after the other. Johnson knows this and is sidestepping his fellow fighter at every turn of the road.”

John L Sullivan