Notable Quotes from Boxing champions

[JAB5239]

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
Muhammad Ali

The three toughest fighters I've ever been up against were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic! But I did have him off the canvas once...when he stepped over my body to leave the ring.
Jake LaMotta

If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.
Homer Simpson

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips

Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
Jack Dempsey
When a drunk challenged him.

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.
Joe Louis

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
Mike Tyson
On fighting Lennox Lewis.

When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.
Don King
On boxing's rating system.

George Foreman: Bob, I can't chase these guys anymore.
Bob Arum: George, I can't put it in the contracts that they can't run.

I was called "Rembrandt" Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
Bob Hope

I don't know what impressive is, but Joe was impressive tonight.
Marlene Bugner
Wife of Joe Bugner.

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.
Tonya Harding

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
John Barrymore

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
Omar Epps

Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look weak and ****** in front of 17 million people. That's just not gonna happen.
Dustin Diamond

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
Joyce Carol Oates

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.
Gerry Cooney

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
Georges Carpentier

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
Alexis Arguello

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
Olivier Martinez

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.
**** Schaap

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
Jimmy Smits

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
Gene Tunney

The real problem today is the ineffective and inconsistent oversight of professional boxing, which has led to continuing scandals, controversies, unethical practices, and unnecessary injuries and deaths in the sport.
Charles W. Pickering

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
John Cusack

I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.
Alexis Arguello

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
Al Sharpton

Today, many fans are saddened and upset by the lack of integrity they see in professional boxing that has significantly weakened the sport - the most deplorable problem of which is the treatment of the sport's athletes.
Charles W. Pickering

[JAB5239]

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
Jack Handy

Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious.
Alan Minter

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
Jack Dempsey

I wanted to do in boxing what Bruce Lee was able to do in karate. Lee was an artist, and, like him, I try to get beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want my fights to be seen as plays.
Sugar Ray Leonard

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.
Bob Seger

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce Carol Oates

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali

Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.
Bob Verdi

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
Joyce Carol Oates

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision.
Muhammad Ali

Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a second helping.
Fred Mitchell

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Roger Kahn

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
Bob Verdi quotes

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.
Sonny Liston

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.
Frank Bruno

And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.
Alicia Keys

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Joyce Carol Oates

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
Budd Schulberg

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighborhood.
Billy Joel

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
George Foreman

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Roger Kahn

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
Joe Frazier

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.
Muhammed Ali

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
Bob Verdi

I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.
Sophia Bush

I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.
Mike Tyson

Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.
Gerry Cooney

[gibo]

Roberto Duran.. after his KO of Ray Lamkin.. If i had trained for this fight, they wouldn't be taking him to the hospital, they'd be taking him to the morgue.

[DeepSleep]

Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"

[JAB5239]

Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"

That may be one of my favorite boxer quotes of all time.

[The Beatles]

There's no question that Sugar Ray Leonard is better than Robinson. He beat the better fighters and won titles in more weight classes. He would also beat him in a head to head match-up.

da ****???

[mickey malone]

That may be one of my favorite boxer quotes of all time.

Great contribution there, Jab..

You've left me very few to play with.. Here's a few:-

Hugh McIlvenny to Joe Bugner, "You didn't try hard enough against Ali!"

Bugner to McIlvenny, "Well bring on Jesus Christ!!"

McIlvenny to Bugner, "You're only saying that cos you know he's got bad hands!"

"Bocthing ith a mugth game" - Chrith Eubank

"Why should I need experience?,, Experience is being ko'd b4" - Jeff Harding

"To ko somebody like Chris Byrd, is like killing a fly, you have to aim for the vacuum of it's escape" - Ike Ibeabuchi

"It's getting harder to wake up at 4am every morning to go running when you're in a four poster bed and wearing silk pyjamas" - Marvin Hagler

"How dya do, ya skinny Irish ****" - Terry Downes (on meeting me as a yougster)

"The harder I train, the luckier I get" - Willie Pastrano

"Gary Stretch?,, I'll hit him so hard he'll be nicked for speeding!" - Nigel Benn

"Bring on all the Ni##ers!" - Hector Camacho

"Congratulations, but Mike has absolutely no intentions of fighting either George Foreman or Max Schmeling in the near or distant future"
- Don King (in an email to Joe Bugner, who'd just won a paper title)