Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 6)

I figured I'd find him sooner or later but I never did. I asked myself, "Where did he go?" I knew he was there because he kept hitting me.

British boxing champion

They said it would last two rounds; they were half right, it lasted four.

British sports commentator

They say they have picked Justin Fortune because he's the same height as Mike Tyson… so is my wife.

English boxing manager & promoter

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

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

Lennox Lewis has two chances of getting a rematch with McCall – no chance and slim. And slim has just left town.

(1931 – ) American boxing promoter

I don't want to fight no Mexican roadsweepers no more.

British boxer

The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.

American boxer

[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

Earnie hit me so hard, it shook my kinfolk back in Africa.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.

British boxing champion

Jake LaMotta and I fought six times. We almost got married.

(1921 – 1989) American boxing champion

It's strange… two guys in shorts competing for a belt; they should, at least, award them slacks or a shirt.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

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

Boxing is show-business with blood.

(1853 – 1931) American theatrical producer, impresario, director & playwright

After Buster Douglas knocked out Tyson – He's just like Humpty Dumpty. They're not going to be able to put Tyson back together again.

I can do my sport no greater service.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Larry Holmes didn't beat me — he just won the first 15 rounds.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Ali wouldn't have hit Joe Louis on the bum with a handful of rice.

American boxer

In Willie DeWit, we have an all-American boy, even though he is a Canadian.

American boxer

By the way Frank Bruno went on about beating Bugner, you'd have thought he had won the Booker prize, not just taken time to out-jab an old man bullocking around pretty harmlessly in the pension queue.

(1944 – ) British sportswriter