Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 4)

Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less.

American boxing champion
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So many of [English sporting promoter] Barry Hearn's boxers end up in the hospital; he should sell his limousine and buy an ambulance.

British boxer
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If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
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After Buster Douglas knocked out Tyson – He's just like Humpty Dumpty. They're not going to be able to put Tyson back together again.

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The bell went ding and I went dong.

British boxer
Boxing

Saying that Howard Cosell quit commensating on boxing because it's sleazy is like saying Nixon quit politics because it's crooked.

sportswriter
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I’ll bet the hardest thing about prize fightin’ is pickin’ up yer teeth with a boxin’ glove on.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
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George Chuvalo's best punch is a left cheek to the right glove.

American sportswriter
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Lennox Lewis has two chances of getting a rematch with McCall – no chance and slim. And slim has just left town.

(1931 – ) American boxing promoter
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He went to the hospital with bleeding kidneys, and me… I went dancing with my wife.

Canadian boxing champion
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If I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.

American boxer
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If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I can take it but I can't dish it out.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.

English broadcaster, journalist & author
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Since I didn't want to go round mugging old ladies or robbing banks, I took up boxing.

English boxer
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Anyone who studied McCall's contribution to the fight would not have been surprised that he failed to hit a sample tube with the required amount afterwards. Bruno, of course, had no such trouble. He is well used to having the piss taken out of him by his fellow countrymen.

sportswriter
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I'll bet the hardest thing about prize fighting is picking up your teeth with a boxing glove on.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
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The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.

American boxer
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I'm a realist. You don't enter a Volkswagen at Indy unless you know a helluva shortcut.

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If Mike Tyson gets any better, he’ll be hitting Lou Rawls while he sings the National Anthem.

American television personality
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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
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