"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."
A backhanded compliment, rather than an insult, from Muhammad Ali to a young boxer.
"My wife just had a baby." "Congratulations! Whose baby is it?"
Joe Frazier stuns his boxing rival Ken Norton.
"Lie down so I can recognise you."
Willie Pep, the American featherweight boxer, when asked by an old opponent if he recognised him.
"He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem."
Eddie Shaw, the boxing coach, on Herol "Bomber" Graham, the British light-middleweight.
"Joe Frazier is so ugly he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife."
Frazier took Muhammad Ali's taunt before their first heavyweight title fight in 1971 very personally - particularly when Ali then called him an Uncle Tom.
AND MY FAVOURITE......
"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."
Blackie Sherrod, the American columnist, on a heavyweight boxing contender.
A backhanded compliment, rather than an insult, from Muhammad Ali to a young boxer.
"My wife just had a baby." "Congratulations! Whose baby is it?"
Joe Frazier stuns his boxing rival Ken Norton.
"Lie down so I can recognise you."
Willie Pep, the American featherweight boxer, when asked by an old opponent if he recognised him.
"He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem."
Eddie Shaw, the boxing coach, on Herol "Bomber" Graham, the British light-middleweight.
"Joe Frazier is so ugly he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife."
Frazier took Muhammad Ali's taunt before their first heavyweight title fight in 1971 very personally - particularly when Ali then called him an Uncle Tom.
AND MY FAVOURITE......
"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."
Blackie Sherrod, the American columnist, on a heavyweight boxing contender.
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