Favourite CLASSIC FIGHTER QUOTES

[McGoorty]

Some very good fighter quotes

"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious." - Alan Minter --------------------------------- "If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass." - Randall Cobb ----------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.' " - Mike Tyson ------------------------------------------------------- "All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." - Jack Dempsey --------------------------------------------------- "Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book." - Joe Frazier --------------------------------------------- "The three toughest fighters I've ever been up against were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic! But I did have him off the canvas once...when he stepped over my body to leave the ring." - Jake LaMotta

[McGoorty]

Even Better Ones

When George Benton was asked why he had never been knocked down in his pro career i believe he said:

"Because i have eyes on my rear and slip punches in my dreams"

TwoTon TONY GALENTO ; (when asked about the Bard of Avon): "Shakespeare? I ain't never heard of him. I suppose he's one of them foreign heavyweights. They're all lousy. Sure as hell I'll moider de bum." ------------------------------------------- TONY SIBSON ; (on being beaten in a match): 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. ----------------------------------------------------------- MAX BAER : (on Joe Louis): He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------ANON (on Don ****ell): He is the biggest thing on canvas since "The Wreck of the Hesperus". -----------------------------------------------------TOMMY FARR : Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 'ENERY COOPER ; was once confronted by a boxing abolitionist, Baroness Edith Summerskill, about the brutalities of his sport. We can all learn from his words of wisdom. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Baroness: Mr Cooper, have you looked in teh mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?
Cooper: Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours? -----------------------------------------------------------------------Joe Frazier once met fellow-boxer Ken Norton at a social gathering. I am not sure if a fight followed the conversation below.

FRAZIER : Hey man, what you been doing?
NORTON : My wife just had a baby.
FRAZIER ? Congratulations! Whose baby is it?

[McGoorty]

Sam Langford was one boxer for whom confidence came easily. Before the start of one match he addressed the crowd "You'll pardon me gentlemen if I make the fight short. I have a train to catch." He then knocked out his opponent in the first round and promptly left for the station. (He caught the train).

On another occasion he was fighting a 12-round match with Jack Thompson. At the start of the seventh round he extended his glove to Thompson (this was the usual ritual done in the final round of a boxing match) who was quite puzzled. "This ain't the last round Sam." he said. "It is for you," replied Sam and a punch later, Thompson was unconscious.

[Hakuna Matata]

Mike Tyson after knocking out Lou Savarese-

"I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! I'm Alexander! He's no Alexander! I'm the best ever. There’s never been anyone as ruthless as me. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!"


It was more crazy than funny when he first said it, but it's pretty funny now.

[THE REED]

Mills Lane stopped the action to ask Cobb if he was okay in a fight in Reno. When Cobb replied that he was, Lane asked him, "Do you know where you are?" Cobb replied, "I am in Reno, getting the **** kicked out of me."

Epic

[DarkTerror88]

When was a boy, in the gym I asked Frazier, "Hey mr. Joe, just how hard did Foreman really hit?" and I'll never forget what he said.

"Son, you ever try kissin the express train?"

[Capaedia]

When was a boy, in the gym I asked Frazier, "Hey mr. Joe, just how hard did Foreman really hit?" and I'll never forget what he said.

"Son, you ever try kissin the express train?"

That's the greatest thing I've ever heard.

Green k

[McGoorty]

That's the greatest thing I've ever heard.

Green k

From ALEX COSTICA.....

I go by boat now, Crouse he soon follow. Darcy knock him out quick, you see.
Costica

[Kid McCoy]

Out of any fighter in history that I can recall, Tex Cobb consistently had the most entertaining quotes.


When Cobb heard what Cosell had said during the Holmes fight about never calling another fight he said "I'll go another 15 rounds with Holmes if Howard will quit announcing football!"


Mills Lane stopped the action to ask Cobb if he was okay in a fight in Reno. When Cobb replied that he was, Lane asked him, "Do you know where you are?" Cobb replied, "I am in Reno, getting the **** kicked out of me."

You could have an entire topic on Tex Cobb quotes alone. When asked if he wanted a rematch with Holmes, he replied: "I don't think his hands could take the punishment!"

Annoyed at all the criticism he was getting, Joe Bugner said "I'll fight anyone, even Jesus Christ himself", to which Reg Gutteridge replied: "now that's not fair Joe, you know he has bad hands."

"If he elbows you again, kick him"

- Angelo Dundee to Murray Sutherland during his fight with Mike Spinks

"I didn't want to fight Roy Williams. Nobody wanted to fight Roy Williams!"

- Larry Holmes

[Capaedia]

From ALEX COSTICA.....

Ohhh no you don't McGoorty, you're not taking this one from Frazier!

Also I took the liberty of finding one of your old posts on Tex, JAB.

"If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass."

(When informed that Howard Cosell quit boxing after his fight with Larry Holmes) "My gift to boxing."

When asked about how he was going to fight Holmes by Howard Cosell "Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him"

(Asked about a possible rematch against Larry Holmes) "I dont think his hands can take the abuse"

Asked about fighting Holmes again "Only if it's held in a phone booth"

"Larry Holmes doesn't hit as hard as Earnie Shavers. Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him."

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

Mills Lane stopped the action to ask Cobb if he was okay in a fight in Reno. When Cobb replied that he was, Lane asked him, "Do you know where you are?" Cobb replied, "I am in Reno, getting the **** kicked out of me."

Versus Larry Holmes, the action was stopped so the ref could check on Cobb. He asked him, "Do you see me?" Cobb replies, "Yeah. You're white. It's the black guy I'm worried about."

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

When Cobb heard what Cosell had said during the Holmes fight "I'll go another 15 rounds with Holmes if Howard will quit announcing football!"

"I stuck to my game plan -- stumbling forward and getting hit in the face."

"They called me a fat, cowardly, *******-snorting, fight-fixing
cheat," Who they calling fat!"

(When asked about continuing his career) "Better than getting a real job, right!"

"I was only knocked out once, by a Mexican bantamweight, you wanna know how come? Six of my pals were swinging him 'round by his heels at the time.."

"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!!"

When tex cobb was on Johnny Carson soon after the Holmes fight, Carson commented on how Holmes kept landing his jab on Cobb. Cobb said "you noticed that too?"

During the referee's instructions prior to his bout with Shavers, the ref asked the customary "Any questions"? Cobb replied "Can I bite him"?