Boxing Quotes - Page 39

• As long as there's this welfare state of ours we're not going to have any good fighters

  Tommy Farr

  Long, Fighter, Welfare

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• The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep

  Angelo Dundee

  Pep

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• A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Ems, Boxers

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• Sit down, son. It's all over. No-one will ever forget what you did here today

  Eddie Futch

  Son, Today, Forget

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• Count 10 over him - he'll get up

  Wilson Mizner

  Get Up

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• First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends

  Willie Pep

  Legs, Firsts, Reflexes

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• Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

  Ernest Hemingway

  White, Chicago, Saws

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• On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!'

  Jake LaMotta

  Guy, Way, Jehovah

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• People tell me it was a great left hook, but I wouldn't know. I never saw it

  Gene Fullmer

  People, Hook, Saws

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• Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me

  Mike Tyson

  Men, Thinking, Egotistical

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• It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10

  Sonny Liston

  Long, Matter

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• Talk of fighting Tyson is a little premature. I'm an addict and an alcoholic

  Michael Dokes

  Fighting, Littles, Tyson

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• Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

  Harry Greb

  Art, Artist

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• I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again

  Muhammad Ali

  Couple, Fighting, World

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• When I came into boxing, when it was more out of control, no fighters got an opportunity to fight. I came in: everybody got an opportunity to make a living in America.

  Don King

  Fighting, Opportunity, America

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• Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.

  Don King

  Thanks, Fighter, Coetzee

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• Larry is like a son to me and we enjoy a most wonderful relationship, one with meaning, dignity, pride, understanding and purpose. But more importantly, one of mutual respect. Larry and I both pride ourselves on being men of our word and when we say we will be together for life it is not just convention but is said with feeling and commitment that comes from struggling together, growing together and being family.

  Don King

  Struggle, Commitment, Pride

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• I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties.

  Don King

  Lying, Ties, People

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• Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it.

  Don King

  Country, Hate, America

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• If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.

  Don King

  Kings, America, Police

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• Don King is a damn sleezebag. King is nothing but a strong-arm man. He has taken his gangsterism and put it into boxing.

  Don King

  Strong, Kings, Taken

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• Don King sucks...Don King sucks...Don King sucks.

  Bob Arum

  Kings

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• I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.

  Mike Tyson

  Kings, Taxes, Sooner Or Later

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• King and Arum are alike. One's black and one's white. That's the only difference.

  Pinklon Thomas

  Kings, White, Differences

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• Don King is the best snake oil salesman I ever met. The absolute best.

  Mickey Duff

  Kings, Snakes, Oil

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