Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 13)

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

John Conteh has a neck like a stately home staircase.

English boxer

Venezuela! Great, that's the Italian city with the guys in the boats, right?

American boxing promoter

He can run, but he can't hide.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

He's got a cut on his left eye… it's just below his eyebrow.

British sports commentator

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

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

American boxing trainer

Anyone who weighs over 200 pounds can punch; I don't care if it's a broad.

American boxing trainer

I've made the national anthem a six-point underdog.

American sports commentator & oddsmaker

It would be like the elephants standing up on two feet. It would be like the man being shot out of the cannon. It would be like a woman with a beard down to the floor. It would be the greatest show on earth.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

The bum was up and down so many times I thought he was an Otis elevator.

boxing trainer & manager

I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check; I'm in the check cashing business.

American professional boxer

Frank Bruno says I'm chicken. Well you can tell him I've come home to roost.

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

Contrary to the old wives' tale that bloody-minded trainers put around, a little love-in before the main event can do you more good than a rub-down with The Sporting Life.

English boxer