Subject: Sports » Boxing (Page 7)

Frank Bruno's fall was that of a felled oak. As the dust settled there was a silence, and then followed the gentle rustle of falling leaves of greenbacks.

(1944 – ) British sportswriter

Billy Wells was all chin from the waist up.

American boxer

Joe Bugner fought Bruno like the objective of boxing was to get hit on the jaw.

boxing film collector

I don't know what impressive is, but Joe was impressive tonight.

wife of fighter Joe Bugner

He’s the man of the hour at this particular moment.

(1931 – ) American boxing promoter

I’ll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.

American professional boxer

Interviewer: Have you ever thought of writing your autobiography?

Chris Eubank: On what?

British boxing champion

With four sisters about the house, I could never get my hands on a comb.

American boxing champion

If I fought Evander [Holyfield] with a baseball bat, I would win the fight… but it would be by decision.

Pose nude for Playgirl? … I wouldn't pose nude for Boxing News.

English boxer

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

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

It’s a lot harder than tennis. If I make a mistake, it’s like 0-15. In boxing, you let your head down once and you’re in the hospital.

American professional tennis player

Hey, you're a white guy, do something about this!

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

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

It hurt to even bump into him.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

Tyson fights like you stole something from him or said something nasty about his family.

boxing promoter

I told them sandwiches.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

I'm a realist. You don't enter a Volkswagen at Indy unless you know a helluva shortcut.

So many of [English sporting promoter] Barry Hearn's boxers end up in the hospital; he should sell his limousine and buy an ambulance.

British boxer

He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager