Boxing Quotes - Page 25

• I think I might've turned 39, look like I turned 29, feel like I turned about 19.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Thinking, Looks, Might

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• If I did want to come back, I was going to make, what, $50 million? You know what; don't call my phone unless you've got $100 million.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Phones, Want, Knows

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• The fight for survival is the fight

  Rocky Graziano

  Fighting, Survival

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• What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?

  Teofilo Stevenson

  Love, Money, Patriotic

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• Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank

  Don King

  Kings, Mountain, Want

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• I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know

  Fritzie Zivic

  Piano, Giving, Balls

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• Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Fighting, Mirrors

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• But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all.

  Muhammad Ali

  Army, Answers, Tests

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• So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Army, Decision, Boss

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• The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?

  Muhammad Ali

  School, Mean, Average

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• The word had spread and people were piling around us. But then very suddenly, Sonny Liston froze me with that look of his. He said real quiet, 'Let's go on over here.' And he led the way to a table and the people hung back. I ain't going to lie. This was the only time since I have known Sonny Liston that he really scared me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Real, Lying, People

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• I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Wipe, Saws, Scared

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• I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

  Muhammad Ali

  Race, Heavyweights, Titles

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

  Muhammad Ali

  Girl, Heaven, Might

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• Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

  Muhammad Ali

  Gold, New Friends, Silver

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• If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

  Muhammad Ali

  War, Winning, America

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• If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Differences, News

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• I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

  Muhammad Ali

  Book, Greatest Book, Sells

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

  Muhammad Ali

  Grandmother, Tears, Ugly

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• I respect that you want to protect your niece. You know, I didn't want my daughter to become a boxer. Neither did Mohammad. But Joe Frazier, on the other hand, he had his baby girl boxing in the crib.

  George Foreman

  Girl, Daughter, Baby

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• I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.

  Joe Frazier

  Cities, Body, Shots

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• If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

  George Foreman

  Son, Thinking, Names

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• That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

  George Foreman

  Skulls, Brain, Gals

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

  Harry Carpenter

  Winning

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• Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

  Harry Carpenter

  Buddhist, Pace, Marvelous

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