Boxing: Boxing Quotes

When you're knocked down with a good shot, you don't feel pain. In fact it's a very lovable feeling. Maybe it's like taking dope. It's like floating. You feel you love everybody - like a hippie, I guess. Floyd Patterson (1970)


Rocky Marciano didn't know enough boxing to know what a feint was. He never tried to out-guess you. He just kept trying to knock your brains out. Archie Moore


On his fight with Floyd Patterson being switched to the Windy City- Don't matter where the fight is. My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York. Sonny Listen


On being asked to name his best punch - I don't know, I've never hit myself. Elisha Obed


Jack Dempsey hits like an epileptic pile-driver. Harry C.Witwert


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


Before his fight with Cassius Clay-i can be found the next couple of months trying to perfect my new punch - the lipbuttoner. Archie Moore


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Bob Arum, replying to a reporters question. "Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth."


Buddy McGirt, when he was asked by Gil Clancy who would win the up-coming fight between Maurice Blocker and Glenwood Brown he replied: "The black guy."


Brian London, answering if he would fight Ali again: "Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg."


Jim Watt, former WBC lightweight champion, when asked about his "white complexion" by a reporter said:"I'm like a bottle of milk with gloves."


Muhammad Ali: "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

Originally posted by Ocelot
Brian London, answering if he would fight Ali again: "Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg."

Yeah that is about right though when it came to Ali!!

OMG!!!!

This has to be the best.

On being asked to name his best punch - I don't know, I've never hit myself. Elisha Obed

I spat my drink on my monitor when i see that lol!

It's not one of Bruno's fastest wins... but it's one of them Harry Carpenter

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


After another loss by Chango Cruz - The bum was up and down so many times I thought he was an Otis elevator. Harry Kabakoff (1977)


Boxing is built on bums. How else are you gonna know good from bad? How else is a good boy gonna get on top and get experience unless he fights bums? I tell ya, there's a shortage of bums. Al Braverman (1975)


Herol Graham has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever got knocked out by a poem. Eddie Shaw


I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time. Randall Tex' Cobb