Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 5)

George Foreman can knock down an oak tree, but oak trees don't move.

American boxing trainer

He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

This fight will be the nastiest thing you'll ever see; I've been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce.

1922 – 2006) American boxing champion

If I fought Evander [Holyfield] with a baseball bat, I would win the fight… but it would be by decision.

I’m going down so often these days you’d think I was making a blue movie.

English boxer

Ingemar Johansson is a leviathan with a strangler's hands and a smile like the beam of a lighthouse.

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

In boxing, it's one against one, whereas in rugby league you have 13 guys coming at you, all trying to do you damage. Mind you, my last fight was a bit like that.

British boxer

I wish I had put ballet shoes on him and not boxing gloves.

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

I'm the best heavyweight in Canada and I'll still be the best when I'm dead seven years.

Canadian boxing champion

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

American boxing champion

I get worried when a guy goes down, in case he doesn't get up – for me to hit him again.

British boxer

… standing there making a sitting target of himself.

English boxing manager & trainer

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history, but I consider that a compliment, because I must have got up more than any heavyweight champion.

American boxing champion

Everything Tyson's got has 'goodnight' written on it.

American boxing referee

George has three speeds… slow, stop, and wait a minute.

American boxing trainer

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

He now floats like an anchor, stings like a moth.

Sugar Ray Leonard was asked by Johnny Carson, “When do the wounds from the fight heal?”
His reply: “When the check clears.”

American boxing champion