Larry Holmes Quotes About Boxing

Quotes about: Boxing

• All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps

  Larry Holmes

  Boxing, Pimp, Fighter

• Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and all those guys. Because they were older than me and I was doing my thing.

  Larry Holmes

  Boxing, Guy, Champion

• We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Fighting, Boxing

• I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue with boxing exhibitions.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, Thinking, Boxing

• Don King was good to me through my years as champion, but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He's a wheeler dealer and you've got to be careful. He's a great con artist.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Artist, Years

• I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Blood, Sweat

• Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

  Larry Holmes

  Light, Wings, Boxing

• This is the lying thieving mother who cut me $500,000.

  Larry Holmes

  Mother, Lying, Cutting

• When Don King's fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Fighting, Boxing

• If you don't follow Don King, you get stepped on.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Boxing, Ifs

• Don King is a hip exploiter, an intelligent flesh peddler

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Intelligent, Boxing

• I think Roy Jones is a great fighter, a great puncher. But you know, he doesn't use the jab. But he's got everything else going for him. The problem that hurts Roy Jones in the boxing business, in the celebrity business, is his attitude. Attitude hurts, because you say a lot of things that you probably don't really mean and you say them because you don't want to be put down. But you've got a lot of people who don't like what you say, and that hurts. And that's what Roy Jones has been hurt by. That's what I have been hurt by.

  Larry Holmes

  Hurt, Attitude, Mean

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

• Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, White, Boxing

• I don't think boxing needs to be regulated. I think boxing needs to have a complaint board. And I think the complaint board should be able to look into boxing situations - as far as if you're getting what you should be getting, whether you're being managed, not being managed, etc.

  Larry Holmes

  Thinking, Boxing, Etc

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

• Boxing is already stable, as far as the opportunity to fight, opportunity for fighters to step inside the ring and make some money - I think that's OK, that's fairly legit. I just think fighters need to be represented when it comes down to making sure the "i" is dotted and the "t" is crossed.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

• The only thing I'd like to see is to give fighters an option to wear a small headguard, a one-ounce headguard. Some fighters might not want that option. But you know - you're training all the time, you're boxing all the time, and you've got a headguard on, you're using big gloves, and you're getting hit. And you observe that your face is better protected that way. Now they're doing it with ten-ounce gloves and no headguard. I think if they have a one-ounce headguard on to protect some of those brain cells in the head, it would be beneficial to the fighter.

  Larry Holmes

  Thinking, Cells, Giving

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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