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Funny Boxing Quotes 2
Frank Bruno: "I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that
I won rather than lost. "
Marlon Starling: "I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if
the price is right"
Dennis Pennis: Have you ever thought of writing your
autobiography?
Chris Eubank: On what?
Don King, on boxing's rating system: "When we started, it
was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets
in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very
confusing."
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."
Harry Carpenter: "This boxer is doing what is expected of
him, bleeding from his nose."
Jack Handy: "To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's
no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other."
Brian London, answering if he would fight Ali again: "Sure,
as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg."
Willie Pep: "I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set
-- and they're both working."
George Foreman: "Bob, I can't chase these guys anymore."
Bob Arum: "George, I cant put it in the contracts that they
can't run."
Randall "Tex" Cobb: "If you screw things up in tennis, it's
15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass."
Bob Hope: "I was called "Rembrandt" Hope in my boxing days,
because I spent so much time on the canvas."
Bob Arum, after his fighter, Iran Barkley, won a fight: "If
you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he
sees how many people are taking part of his purse."
Marlene Bugner, wife of Joe Bugner: "I don't know what
impressive is, but Joe was impressive tonight."
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."
Tony Galento, when asked about 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."
Mike Tyson, on fighting Lennox Lewis: "My main objective is
to be professional, but to kill him."
Harry Carpenter: "He looks up through blood smeared lips."
Joe Frazier, talking to Ken Norton at a social gathering.
Frazier: "Hey man, what you been doing?"; Norton: "My wife
just had a baby."; Frazier: "Congratulations! Whose baby is
it?"
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