Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 12)

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

Mike Tyson's not all that bad. If you dig deep … dig real deep, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, deep, deep, go all the way to China … I'm sure, you'll find there's a nice guy in there.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

Standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

(1909–1959) American boxing champion

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

When I hit Jimmy with that left it felt like when you hit a baseball and it goes right into deep field.

American boxing champion

Gerry Cooney can't fight to keep warm.

Boxing press agent

The current version of Buster Mathis [Jr.] boasts not just a Michelin man waist but an embonpoint thai would give him a better shot at starring in the next Wonderbra poster than winning a boxing title.

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

American boxing trainer

Sleep came as it must come to all British heavyweights, midway in the fifth round.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

The Rock didn't know too much about the boxing book, but it wasn't a book he hit me with. It was a whole library of bone crushers.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

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

I fear no man, but the dentist.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

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

brother of boxer champion George

He just wants to get in there and mash them. If you broke his arm, he'd kick you. If you broke his leg, he'd bite you. If you took out his teeth, he'd nut you. This boy wants to fight.

Irish boxer

George Chuvalo's best punch is a left cheek to the right glove.

American sportswriter

I’m undisputed. There's no disputing that.

British and Canadian boxing champion

I'd love to fight Gerry Cooney. But I have my price – 25 cents and a loose woman.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

Rocky Marciano stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump.

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist

It don't matter as long as he can count up to ten.

American professional boxer

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