Subject: Sports » Boxing

One day Don King will asphyxiate by the force of his own exhaust.

boxing trainer

… standing there making a sitting target of himself.

English boxing manager & trainer

Brian London possesses the most unbeautiful face – it looks as if it, at one time, fell apart and was reassembled by a drunken mechanic.

English broadcaster, journalist & author

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

I know it's said that I can't punch, but you should see me putting the cat out at night.

boxer

You're damn right I know where I am! I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the sh*t kicked out of me.

American boxer

If bullshit was poetry, Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini's name would be 'Shakespeare.'

boxing manager

If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

It’s just a job; grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand… I beat people up.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

He's got a nutritionist, and I've got room service.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

[boxing promoter] Bob Arum is one of the worst people in the western hemisphere. I don't know the eastern hemisphere very well, but I suspect he'd be one of the worst people there too, if he went.

boxing manager & trainer

He can run, but he can't hide.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

Well, we have been trying to get Elvis… he's been dead long enough.

brother of boxer champion George

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

American boxing trainer

Boxing is just show business with blood.

English boxer

Billy Wells was all chin from the waist up.

American boxer

Not being born to parents who were accountants was probably my biggest mistake.

British boxing champion

Boxing: A mutual affliction of brain damage for the amusement of the public.

It’s marvelous. You win the championship of the world and the first thing they say to you is ‘Piss off!’

Scottish boxer

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