Boxing Quotes - Page 25

On my twelfth birthday, I got a new bicycle as a present from my folks, and I rode it to a fair that was being held at the Columbia Gymnasium, and when I come out, my bike was gone. I was so mad I was crying, and a policeman, Joe Martin, come up and I told him I was going to whip whoever took my bike. He said I ought to take some boxing lessons to learn how to whip the thief better, and I did. That's when I started fighting.

I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.

Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.

The show was bad, but I was great

I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head

My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?

King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked.

That's all they said was wrong with me?

I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end

He was screaming like my wife.

There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.

I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more.

I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do

Sued King for $100 million, alleging the boxing promoter cheated him out of millions over more than a decade. It was settled out of court for $14 million.

What really amazed me was when I sent a suit out for cleaning, forgetting that $700 was in the pocket. They sent the suit back to me. If that happened in New York, both money and suit would be gone.