Subject: Sports » Boxing

If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse.

professional boxing promoter
Boxing Sports

He can run, but he can't hide.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Rocky Marciano didn't know enough boxing to know what a feint was. He never tried to out-guess you. He just kept trying to knock your brains out.

American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

British sports commentator
Boxing Misspokements Sports

I don't think his hands could take the abuse.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

With four sisters about the house, I could never get my hands on a comb.

American boxing champion
Appearance Boxing Hair Sports

Frank Bruno's fall was that of a felled oak. As the dust settled there was a silence, and then followed the gentle rustle of falling leaves of greenbacks.

(1944 – ) British sportswriter
Boxing Sports

Sometimes Howard makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Insults Sports

I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm also not Charles Manson.

(1966 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Characteristics Sports

If I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing – but none of them serious.

English professional boxer
Boxing Misspokements Sports

I miss the things like the camaraderie in the gym; I don’t miss being smacked in the mouth every day.

Irish professional boxer
Boxing Sports

He stings like a bee, but lives like a W.A.S.P.

Irish radio & television presenter
Boxing Sports

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art; trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

Blues saxophonist
Boxing Sports

If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am.

American boxing champion
Boxing Self Sports

He can do it the hard way, get beat up for 12 rounds and end up in the hospital. Or, he can do it the easy way, get hit on the chin and go to sleep.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

I can be found the next couple of months trying to perfect my new punch – the lip-buttoner.

American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

They're selling video cassettes of the Ali-Spinks re-match for $89.95. Hell, for that money Leon will come to your house.

boxing physician
Boxing Sports

Johnny Carson gently suggested to Cobb that Larry Holmes seemed to be always a step ahead of him

Cobb replied: Did it seem that way to you too?

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

American professional boxer
Boxing Sports

Don King dresses like a pimp and speechifies like a store-front preacher.

boxing writer
Boxing Sports