Boxer quotes thread

[JAB5239]

Post some of your favorite quotes from boxers. There are so many great ones, but I'll start with this one I found today.

'There's too much violence in the world, most of it perpetrated on me by Sugar Ray Robinson. I came at that guy with a vengeance. He came at me with punches. Robinson opened everything I had that was closed, and closed everything that was open. But there was one thing you could say about me as a fighter—I kept my head. I lost my teeth, but I kept my head.'

- Jake LaMotta

[Marchegiano]

Frank Craig - " Say you are a hard working married man, and you go home tired and hungry to find your supper isn't ready and you know it could have been ready, and there's no excuse. I guess for a time you're going to feel pretty bitter against your wife. But your bitterness if toffee compared with the bitterness, of the blacks against the whites--at least, in America. So the colored boxer went into the ring, and goes into the ring today, for "victory or death". The white man is not so keen. The Englishman, indeed, has little to no feeling against us. This is one reason why the black man wins: He has tremendous goad behind him."

[GhostofDempsey]

hmm, can y'all se my last post?

I can't see me but it says I've responded. I dropped a Frank Craig quote.

I can see it.

[Willie Pep 229]

"Rob your house" Iran Barkley replying to an interviewer's question: "What will you do when you retire?"

[JAB5239]

"Rob your house" Iran Barkley replying to an interviewer's question: "What will you do when you retire?"

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[QueensburyRules]

- -Fight of the Century, March 1971 ring center touching of the gloves:
Ali- You in the Ring with God now.
Joe- God, you in the wrong place...

[JAB5239]

'Your determination to win makes you a champion. You have to lead a clean life. I never drank, never smoked. I lived boxing.'

- Sandy Saddler

[billeau2]

Boxing is the "hurt" business. ---Ray Robinson
No need for anyone to get hurt---- Slapsie Maxie on why he preferred a slapping punch attack.

[GhostofDempsey]

'Did I have air-conditioning in my corner?'' ~ Joey Maxim on his win over Robinson in 103 degree heat.

[GhostofDempsey]

"The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters."

—Cus D'Amato