Don King, on boxing's rating system: "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."
Funny Boxing Quotes
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George Foreman before the Holyfield fight.
"I'm gonna eat hamburgers and chesseburgers, and belly bump that little guy all over the ring. I'm gonna eat every flavor of ice cream at Baskin-Robbins, so when he starts to push me, he'll be pushing a whole franchise."Comment
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Jack Dempsey:
Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning. (when a drunk challenged him)
Honey, I just forgot to duck. (to his wife, on losing the World Heavyweight title)
Jake LaMotta:
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 surprized I'm not diabetic! But I did have him off the canvas once...when he stepped over my body to leave the ring.Comment
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are you sure about the last part?Jack Dempsey:
Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning. (when a drunk challenged him)
Honey, I just forgot to duck. (to his wife, on losing the World Heavyweight title)
Jake LaMotta:
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 surprized I'm not diabetic! But I did have him off the canvas once...when he stepped over my body to leave the ring.
i think lamotta knocked srr down, but never the other way round (st valentine's massacre was stopped with lamotta standing on the ropes)
anyway mad props for all these quotes, they are really funnyComment
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Mike Tyson:
"Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late."
"Everybody's got plans...until they get hit."
Joe Louis:
"Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling."
Muhammad Ali:
"Joe Frazier is so ugly, he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife."
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."Comment
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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?"Comment
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