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My main objective is to be professional, but to kill him.
-Mike Tyson, on fighting Lennox Lewis
I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.
-Muhammad Ali
Max Baer, when asked for his definition of fear: "Standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early."
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
-Muhammad Ali
He looks up through blood smeared lips.
-Harry Carpenter
Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
-Muhammad Ali
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
-Robert C. Gallagher (I had to slip this one in somewhere!)
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, ****y; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
-Muhammad Ali
Tony Sibson, on being beaten in a match: "I figured I'd find him sooner or later but I never did. I asked myself "Where did he go?" I knew he was there because he kept hitting me."
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
-Muhammad Ali
Willie Pastrano, when asked by the ring doctor if he knew where he was: "You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the **** knocked out of me."
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
-Muhammad Ali
Alan Minter: "Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."
Don't count the days, make the days count.
-Muhammad Ali
Lou Duva, Veteran boxing trainer, on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
-Muhammad Ali
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
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other.
-Jack Handy
Bob Arum, after his fighter, Iran Barkley, beat Darrian Van Horn: "If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse."
Joe Frazier, talking to Ken Norton at a social gathering. Frazier: "Hey man, what you been doing?"; Norton: "My wife just had a baby."; Frazier: "Congratulations! Whose baby is it?"
Muhammad Ali, on an upcoming fight with Floyd Patterson: "I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on."
Willie Pep, talking to an old opponent years after each retired. "Do you recognize me?" the old opponent asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognize you."
Mark Kaylor: "I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time."
Muhammad Ali: "At home I am a nice guy� but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far."
Henry Cooper, replying to boxing abolitionist, Baroness Edith Summerskill, about the brutalities of his sport. Baroness: "Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?"
Cooper: "Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?"
Mike Tyson, on writer Wallace Matthews: "[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse."
Harry Carpenter: "It's not one of Bruno's fastest wins... but it's one of them."
Mark Kaylor: "I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight."
Randall "Tex" Cobb: "When I got up I stuck to my plan -- stumbling forward and getting hit in the face."
Muhammad Ali: "I ain't got no quarrel with those Viet Cong."
Blackie Sherrod, talking about a heavyweight contender: "He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts."
Max Barr, on Joe Louis: "He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."
Harry Kabakoff, on Chango Cruz: "The bum was up and down so many times I thought he was an Otis elevator."
Muhammad Ali: "I'm so mean I make medicine sick."
Mike Tyson, to the Nevada State Athletic Commission: "I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm also not Charles Manson."
Nick Wilshire: "I can only see it going one way, that's my way. How it's actually going to go I can't really say."
Muhammad Ali: "Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid�only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough."
Tommy Farr: "Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed."
Muhammad Ali, when asked about his golf game: "I'm the best. I just haven't played yet."
Dan Duva, on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King: "Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."
Alan Massengale, after Don Zimmer got knocked down by Pedro Martinez in the playoffs and Evander Holyfield lost to James Toney.: "I felt sorry for Zimmer this weekend. Next time, if he wants to rumble, maybe he should pick on someone a little closer to his age. Evander Holyfield might be available."
Harry Carpenter: "Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue."
Tex Cobb, responding to a reporter who said Cobb was a fat, ******* snorting , drunk. Cobb replied: "I'm not fat."
Dan Duva, referring to whether or not he thought Mike Tyson would learn anything in prison: "He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."
Muhammed Ali: "There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up."
George Foreman: "The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters."
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
-Muhammad Ali
Hatton on Mayweather:-
"He is so full of himself. If there was such a thing as reincarnation, he would want to come back as himself"
"I will be all over him like a cheap suit"
My main objective is to be professional, but to kill him.
-Mike Tyson, on fighting Lennox Lewis
I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.
-Muhammad Ali
Max Baer, when asked for his definition of fear: "Standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early."
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
-Muhammad Ali
He looks up through blood smeared lips.
-Harry Carpenter
Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
-Muhammad Ali
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
-Robert C. Gallagher (I had to slip this one in somewhere!)
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, ****y; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
-Muhammad Ali
Tony Sibson, on being beaten in a match: "I figured I'd find him sooner or later but I never did. I asked myself "Where did he go?" I knew he was there because he kept hitting me."
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
-Muhammad Ali
Willie Pastrano, when asked by the ring doctor if he knew where he was: "You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the **** knocked out of me."
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
-Muhammad Ali
Alan Minter: "Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."
Don't count the days, make the days count.
-Muhammad Ali
Lou Duva, Veteran boxing trainer, on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
-Muhammad Ali
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
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other.
-Jack Handy
Bob Arum, after his fighter, Iran Barkley, beat Darrian Van Horn: "If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse."
Joe Frazier, talking to Ken Norton at a social gathering. Frazier: "Hey man, what you been doing?"; Norton: "My wife just had a baby."; Frazier: "Congratulations! Whose baby is it?"
Muhammad Ali, on an upcoming fight with Floyd Patterson: "I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on."
Willie Pep, talking to an old opponent years after each retired. "Do you recognize me?" the old opponent asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognize you."
Mark Kaylor: "I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time."
Muhammad Ali: "At home I am a nice guy� but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far."
Henry Cooper, replying to boxing abolitionist, Baroness Edith Summerskill, about the brutalities of his sport. Baroness: "Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?"
Cooper: "Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?"
Mike Tyson, on writer Wallace Matthews: "[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse."
Harry Carpenter: "It's not one of Bruno's fastest wins... but it's one of them."
Mark Kaylor: "I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight."
Randall "Tex" Cobb: "When I got up I stuck to my plan -- stumbling forward and getting hit in the face."
Muhammad Ali: "I ain't got no quarrel with those Viet Cong."
Blackie Sherrod, talking about a heavyweight contender: "He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts."
Max Barr, on Joe Louis: "He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."
Harry Kabakoff, on Chango Cruz: "The bum was up and down so many times I thought he was an Otis elevator."
Muhammad Ali: "I'm so mean I make medicine sick."
Mike Tyson, to the Nevada State Athletic Commission: "I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm also not Charles Manson."
Nick Wilshire: "I can only see it going one way, that's my way. How it's actually going to go I can't really say."
Muhammad Ali: "Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid�only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough."
Tommy Farr: "Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed."
Muhammad Ali, when asked about his golf game: "I'm the best. I just haven't played yet."
Dan Duva, on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King: "Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."
Alan Massengale, after Don Zimmer got knocked down by Pedro Martinez in the playoffs and Evander Holyfield lost to James Toney.: "I felt sorry for Zimmer this weekend. Next time, if he wants to rumble, maybe he should pick on someone a little closer to his age. Evander Holyfield might be available."
Harry Carpenter: "Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue."
Tex Cobb, responding to a reporter who said Cobb was a fat, ******* snorting , drunk. Cobb replied: "I'm not fat."
Dan Duva, referring to whether or not he thought Mike Tyson would learn anything in prison: "He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."
Muhammed Ali: "There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up."
George Foreman: "The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters."
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
-Muhammad Ali
Hatton on Mayweather:-
"He is so full of himself. If there was such a thing as reincarnation, he would want to come back as himself"
"I will be all over him like a cheap suit"
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