Author: Randall “Tex” Cobb

Boxing writers are the only people out there who have less constructive jobs than what I do; I don't do nothing but hit people, and those mothers don't do nothing but write about what I do!

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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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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Larry Holmes doesn't hit as hard as Earnie Shavers. Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I wasn't talking to Holmes in there; every time I felt like saying something to him I found it hard because he kept putting his left hand in my mouth.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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Only if it's held in a phone booth.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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Can I bite him?

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I'll do anything to keep from working for a living; if I've gotta fight a circus bear, then let's get the drawers on him and get it on!

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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All I do is hit somebody in the mouth; it's a whole lot easier than working for a living.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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You run for 45 minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you just hang out and talk tough.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I’m not fat.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I'm actually getting to sleep before I have breakfast.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I don't think his hands could take the abuse.

(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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I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight – six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I don't know, I've never hit myself.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I'd have been more active in there, if only I'd been a little more sober.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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Larry Holmes didn't beat me — he just won the first 15 rounds.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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I'll go another 15 rounds with Holmes if Howard will quit announcing football!

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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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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Don King is one of the great humanitarians of our time. He has risen above that great term, prejudice. He has screwed everybody he has ever been around. Hog, dog, or frog, it don't matter to Don. If you got a quarter, he wants the first 26 cents.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
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