The greatest/funniest boxing quotes?

[SouthPawHitman]

A reporter to Carmen Basilio - "I've pulled 10 sport writers from around the nation here, 9 of them pick Sugar Ray to win by a knockout tonight, what's your answer to that?".... "9 of 'em are wrong".

Carmen was a straight up G

[Sugar Adam Ali]

"I broke my back" -mike Tyson to jim grey after post fight after eiteinne

[Sugar Adam Ali]

James toney - "I got everyone crying and whining,, bytchkco sisters crying, hasim Rahman and the whole Nation of Islam crying, lucky I didn't shove Some pork into his mouth"

[yngwie]

James toney - "I got everyone crying and whining,, bytchkco sisters crying, hasim Rahman and the whole Nation of Islam crying, lucky I didn't shove Some pork into his mouth"

Burgeeeer kiiiiiiiiing!!!!!

[The Old LefHook]

Larry Holmes, when asked how he wanted to be remembered: "As the world's oldest living man."

[JAB5239]

Toney had some doozies, but anything that came out of Randal "Tax" Cobbs mouth is not only classic, but hilarious!!

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[yngwie]

"Shavers hit so hard he turned horse p*ss into gasoline! He hit me so hard he brought back tomorrow. When he hit me… I was seeing pink rats and cats and animals smoking cigarettes. I was in the land of make-believe."
-James Tillis-

[Anthony342]

"You can run but you can't hide" - Joe Louis

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die" - Joe Louis

"The bigger they are the harder they fall" - 'Barbados Demon' Joe Walcott

"If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it." --Marvin Hagler

" A bad heart? The son of a ***** doesn't have a heart" - Ray Arcel on rumors that Duran had a bad heart going into the Leonard fight.

"I fought Sugar Ray so many times I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes" Jack LaMotta

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

"When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that" -
Frank Bruno

"I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost" Frank Bruno

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

Who was Joe Louis referring to when saying the run but can't hide quote? And I heard Lennox Lewis had a similar quote when fighting Herbie Hide that went "He can Herbie but he can't Hide."

[rightsideup]

Who was Joe Louis referring to when saying the run but can't hide quote? And I heard Lennox Lewis had a similar quote when fighting Herbie Hide that went "He can Herbie but he can't Hide."

joe louis was referring to billy conn

[Anthony342]

Nice. I guess he was right in the end. But Conn should've tried a little harder to run in those later rounds to win a decision. Or at least stick and move, be a moving target.