Here's a bunch of random boxing quotes i found on the internet a while ago, they range from scary to stupid... Tex Cobb's are my fave's... i cant take credit from the person who compiled them all- whoever he was they went to alot of trouble...hope you enjoy...

Alan Minter providing colour commentary after watching Danilo Cabrere give a spirited performance against McGuigan "What did you expect? He lives in a mud hut with his wife and kids, they bring him over here, put him up in a hotel with hot and cold running water, toilets and a colour tv. He's gonna want some of that for him and his family!" They never used Minter again!!!

Eddie "One-Round" Green, who had just been asked by his manager to imagine a fight with the Brown Bomber:
MANAGER: It's the first round. Joe Louis climbs into the ring like a tiger. What do you do?
GREEN: I climbs out of the ring like another tiger.
MANAGER: Any other man would run. But you don't.
GREEN: What's the matter? Am I glued to the floor?
MANAGER: It's the fifteenth round, and you're crawling around the ring on your hands and knees. What are you doing on your hands and knees?
GREEN: Looking for a trap door.
MANAGER: Joe Louis is covered with blood. Your nose is broken. Both your eyes are black, and your jaw is cracked. Now is the time to see what you're made of.
GREEN: What's he gonna do? Turn me inside out?
MANAGER: The crowd is yelling to the referee, "Stop it. Stop it." And what do you say?
GREEN: Okay with me.
MANAGER: I can't stand to see you take any more punishment, so what do I do?
GREEN: You close your eyes?
MANAGER: No, I throw in the towel, and they give the fight to Louis.
GREEN: Let him have it; I don't want it.
MANAGER: But you fought so well that they give you a reward.
GREEN: Oh yeah? What do they give me?
MANAGER: They give you a return fight with Joe Louis.
GREEN: Oh no they don't.
MANAGER: Oh yes they do.
GREEN: Oh no they don't.

Randall Tex Cobb being asked for a possible rematch against Larry Holmes after the one sided beating. 'I dont think his hands can take the abuse'

If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am.
-Marvelous Marvin Hagler

On Billy Conn, who threatened to use his mobility against the world champion -
he can run, but he can't hide.
-Joe Louis (1941)

Earnie Shavers hit me, man, and knocked me face down on the canvas. I was in the land of make believe. I heard saxophones, trombones. I saw little blue rats, and they were all smoking cigars and drinking whisky.
-James 'Quick' Tillis

George Chuvalo’s best punch is a left cheek to the right glove.
-Larry Merchant

You have both been champions before, so i expect you to conduct yourself AS champions.
-Richard Steele at the start of the Botha - Tyson fight.

My 3 best punches are the Rabbit punches, the choke hold and the head butt.
-Chuck Wepner

"My face is a powerful thing."
--Iran Barkley after being told by Wally Matthews that his face was busted up just before landing his Hail Mary shot on Thomas Hearns.

Mitch "Blood" Green, when asked "how long do you think King and Tyson will last together?", answered "Not long, because i'm gonna kill both of them!!!"

Larry Holmes doesn't hit as hard as Earnie Shavers. Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him.
-Randall Tex'Cobb

On hitting Johnny Bumphus while he was still rising from his stool - The bell went ding and I went dong.
-Loyd Honeyghan

My girlfriend boos when we make love because she knows it turns me on.
-Hector Comacho (1989)

He's too short, he's to slow, he cant take a punch, he dont hit hard and he hasn't got the footwork.
-Muhammad Ali talking about Floyd Patterson

Randall 'Tex' Cobb - "Larry Holmes didn't beat me, he just won the first 15 rounds"

"Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious."
-Alan Minter

Tex Cobb against Larry Holmes, at one point the action ws stopped so the ref could check on Tex. He asked him, "Do you see me?" Cobb replies, "Yeah. You're white. It's the black guy I'm worried about."

He hits like a fucking mule kick, pardon my french" Mike Tyson Razor Ruddock

"Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle". Tex cobb

On choosing a referee for his fight against Floyd Patterson - It don't matter as long as he can count up to ten.
-Sonny Liston

I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.
-Randall Tex' Cobb

Ali is on a plane after a victory and he doesnt want to put on his seatbelt, the stewardist walks up to him and says, "Hey champ, you'll need to put your selt belt on."
Ali replied, "What? Superman dont need a seatbelt!"
The Stewardist said back, "Superman dont need a plane."

Randal tex cobb on being asked his best punch –I don't know, I've never hit myself.

Herol Graham has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever got knocked out by a poem.
-Eddie Shaw

Jake LaMotta and I fought six times. We almost got married.
-Sugar Ray Robinson

On being asked for a drug test urine sample immediately after winning a world title - It's marvellous. You win the championship of the world and the first thing they say to you is 'Piss off!'
-Jim Watt

Rocky Marciano didn't know enough boxing to know what a feint was. He never tried to out-guess you. He just kept trying to knock your brains out.
-Archie Moore

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes.
-Jake LaMotta

I only have to read Muhammad Alis' name and my nose starts to bleed again.
-Chuck Wepner

If bullshit was poetry, Muhammad Ali’s name would be Shakespeare.
-Joe Frazier

Go get him! The guys shot!! Go get him!! YOU DON’T WANNA WIN YOU JUST WANNA BE A FUCKING BUM ALL YOUR LIFE! GET HIM!
Angelo Dundee screaming at Quick Tillis to fight against Mike Weaver

From slaveship to championship.
-Don King organizing the rumble in the jungle in Zaire, Africa.

People would rather watch Muhammad Ali watch Larry Holmes fight then watch Larry Holmes fight.
-Don King

Philadelphia is the only place where you see two winos in a street fight jabbing
-Randall Tex Cobb

I’m gonna knock out the big lipped freak and make him my girlfriend
-Mike Tyson talking about Razor Rudduck.

‘Calling Michael Grant’s chin glass is an insult to Glass’.
-Larry Merchant

Mike Weaver replying to Jesse Jackson’s critisims when he took off the South Africa to fight Coetzee during the apartheid.
‘ Jesse Jackson don’t pay my bills’


Tex Cobb is finishing a speech in a hall with fighters like Tyson, Foreman, Holmes, Norton, Ali, Frazier, Hagler, Barkley etc in attendance.
Cobb ends his speech saying 'And i am truly honoured to be in a room with some of the baddest n***ers around!'
Renaldo Snipes then jumps out and says 'Erm Tex i didnt drive all the way here for you to offend me like that
Cobb replied 'Its alright Mr Snipes, i wasnt even talking about you'


Don King is everybody else in boxing. Hes a liar, a thief, a murderer, a racketeer and a con man. But there aint nobody as bad as Bob Arum. That new york city jew lawyer will make you hate city folks, Jews and lawyers all in the same day.
-Tex Cobb


They're probably the only individuals in our universe who actually have less constructive jobs than I do. I dont do nothing but hit people and you mothers dont do nothing but talk about what I do.
-Tex Cobb On Sports writers

When I got up I stuck to my game plan. Stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.
- Cobb being floored by Eddie Gregg

He'll fight any white man, black man, brown man or man of any other colour. He especially likes it when they're yellow and having physical or mental breakdowns when they step into the ring.
-Cobb talking about himself in third person.

This fight will be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. Ive been sober for six weeks and that makes me vicious.
-Tex Cobb On fighting Mike Dokes.

Hard? Hell no it wasnt hard. Anyody who can live with the same woman for 4 months can act.
-Tex Cobb On acting

In response to Scott Ladoex talking about how they should not have stopped the fight during his brutal beating at the hands of Larry Holmes, Ladoex even went as far to say that he was very much in the fight and was ready to make his move.
Howard Cosell- "you see what such punishment will do to a man"

" Id rather be a lamp post in Denver than the mayor of Philadelphia" -Sonny Liston

Mike Tyson- "Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!"

Ali- If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize."

Jack Handy- I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching."

Frank Bruno: "Boxing is just show business with blood."

Liston was having drinks in London at a table that included Reg Gutteridge (TV commentator). The subject of race came up and Liston posed the question as to why racists call black people monkeys when white people generally have a lot more hair on their bodies than black people.
Quick as a flash Reg makes a bet that Sonny's got more hair on his leg than Reg has. Sonny takes the bet and rolls his trouser leg up. Sure enough there are very few hairs on there. The other people at the table want to see Reg's leg. he dutifully rolls it up to reveal a completely smooth false leg. Sonny had no idea about Reg's leg and paid up the bet. Despite trying to be affable Liston was apparently not that impressed with Reg's little joke.

A reporter was interviewing Mike Tyson and asked him "So Mike they have you fighting every two weeks?" Mike, "No, just twice a month."

Tyson: "Maybe I'll fade to Bolivian"

Willie Pep delivered a classic once:
"I've been married six times and all my wives were great housekeepers.
After every divorce they each kept the house."

"There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance." - George Foreman

"If it ain't broke, then you ain't hitting it hard enough."
Jimmy"Buzz Saw" Busch 1902 Bantamweight contender

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?"

Butterbean [to Scott LeDoux]: "How come my nose is straight and your's is so crooked?"
Ledoux [to Butterbean]: "Because I fought eight world champions and you fought fifty bums!"

“It’s one thing to call me white and slow. But to call me a fat, cowardly, cocaine-snorting, fight fixing cheat? Who are they calling fat?”

“I only had two fights as an amateur and lost both of them. Heck, I figure I didn’t have much of a future there, so I turned pro.”

“All I want to do is hit somebody in the mouth, it’s a whole lot easier than working for a living.”

“What the hell is this guy going to do to me? Hit me? You think I got all this scar tissue running into parked cars?”

“The toughest thing to do in the ring is restrain myself. I want to knock the other guy in the groin, but I know I can’t do that.”

“I figure I’ve been hit in the head with everything ‘cept a ‘54 Pontiac.”
Randall "Tex" Cobb

wonderful thread, where did you find all of them ? I'm going to add a few more

FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR

- When I retire, I'll get Ricky Hatton to wash my clothes and cut my lawn and buckle my shoes.
- Ricardo Mayorga is a bum. I'd blow him out the water like my fists was torpedoes.
- Would I fight Junior Witter? Who is he? Is he a boxer?
- He’s a C+ fighter and they put him in there against C- fighters. ( about Arturo Gatti, I love Gatti, but this one isn't completely untrue )
- You ain't never see me get knocked down three times from one punch. ( about Zab Judah probably the best of Floyd's quotes )
- He ain't nowhere near my level, but he's a good fighter though. Maybe one day he'll get off them undercards. ( also about Super Zab )

MIKE TYSON

- After his wife, actress Robin Givens, accuses him of punching her: "Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.''
- "I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them. So you shouldn't talk anymore ... Unless you want to, you know."
- "It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy."
- "They would give Jeffrey Dahmer a second chance before they gave me another one."

IRAN BARKLEY
- ''My whole career, I didn't go around disrespecting any fighter,'' Barkley said. ''But Nunn says I have the I.Q. of an onion. He says I'm ugly. He says I'm a robot man. He calls me Bark-Bark.'' ( about Michael Nunn abusing him before their fight, these epithets about Barkley are kinda funny )

and some more....

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."

Have you got some James Toney quotes, because he has real mouth of gold. In every interview he says something hilarious. The best was the one about Klitschkos when he called them ,, Hitler Boys ''

Haven't heard that one, hopefully it'll get posted. I found a few JT quotes though, and an interview that i really like...

James Toney on Bernard Hopkins- "This punk was supposed to fight me years ago but he back out on me. If he wants big fights against fellow legends, here i am. Don't back out like a sissy."

"Jim don't come up here trying to give me no badass questions, try to degrade me.."

“I don't need a belt to make me. I make the belt, ... I feel great and that's all that matters. I'm still heavyweight champion of the world.”

“I'm not gonna box Ruiz, ... I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He ain't gonna last five rounds. Either he winds up on the canvas or in the hospital. It's his choice.”

“I have a great amount of respect for Holyfield, but when the bell rings, the respect is gone. I am going to be in his ass all night long.”
(in his ass!!! )



here's that interview, JT making friends again...found this on another website, i think its just after his 1st fight with Rahman-

"Due to the high volume of profanity, reader discretion is advised. Do not read if you are easily offended.

Media: How do you feel now James?

James Toney: I'm good now man, after my liver and my kidneys healed up from all the low blows and back punches he (Hasim Rahman) gave me. I was in pretty bad shape for a little bit, but I'm not one to complain. I'm good now. I'm ready to go, ready to fight in June, July.

Media: What's the extent of your injuries?

James Toney: My liver and my kidneys man, they were bruised. You had to see the shots I was hit back there. If you see the fight again, you see him hit me in the back. He was warned maybe once or twice. I'm a true fighter, I don't complain about sh*t. I try to get the job done, I won that fight. I landed 47% of my shots. What did he land..22%?

Then you have these dickwads on HBO, Jim Lampley. Do you guys have a voicemail or email, an email for Jim Lampley? Well, get it and email me. These are f*ck b*tches, these are punk boys, *ssholes, c*cksuckers. You see they don’t even know how call fights. They kept saying he was hitting me, dude wasn’t even hitting me. You all saw the fight, what fight did you see? Did you see me slipping this guy's damn shots.

I had the flu in the first place, as bad as I was - he still couldn’t beat me. He was in the best shape he could ever be in and he still could not whoop me. What do you say about that? This is supposed to be our best fighter right here. The best heavyweight champ y'all got and he couldn’t do sh*t with me that night. I took him to school, I f*cked his whole face up.

Media: If you were at your best, what would have happened?

James Toney: He would have been out of there in 4 or 5 rounds. Everybody knows that. Remember I'm the middleweight now, he's the full blown heavyweight. You know when I f*cked him up at? when the bell rang for the first round and I ran at him, his eyes got as big as golf balls. I told y'all I don’t run from nobody. If you got a problem with me, I'll beat you to it. he had a problem with me and I beat him to the middle of the ring. His eyes got big and then when he hit me with his so called, what y'all call it, 'his big right hand' - what happened when he hit me with his big right hand? What happened? You guys saw the fight.... What happened?

Media: Nothing

James Toney: Nothing, I laughed at his b*tch-*ss didnt I? I laughed at him and his eyes got as big as coconuts. You saw what happened when I was cracking him? He started to do the Yankee Doodle Doo, he was shaking. Then I hit him with some bodyshots, you saw his leg lifting up right?

The referee Eddie Cotton was on crack that night. He didn’t know what was happening. Please print that and send it to Atlantic City, Eddie Cotton was on crack that night. All his boys can suck donkey d*ck.

Media: What’s happening with June?

James Toney: I want to fight in June or July. I'm upset right now, I'm very upset. Everybody knows I won that fight and you got motherf*ckers, c*cksuckers talking sh*t why I wasn’t in shape. If I wasn’t in shape I would of never been able to go twelve rounds, but the man hit me in my f*cking back. I took 360 shots to my liver and kidneys - one warning. I had to spend two weeks in the hospital.

Media: First thing I noticed is how much slimmer you look. Is that due to the hospital stay?

James Toney: yeah, I lost 18 pounds while I was in there. It's a good thing.

Media: Did Rahman do anything that surprised you?

James Toney: The only thing that Rahman did that surprised me was go the distance. Now Rahman knows he got a gift. He knows he didn’t get a draw, he knows he lost that fight. You see he didn’t complain about it.

Then he was on ESPN a week later, saying 'I don't if I can beat James if we fought again.' He don’t really sound like a confident guy because he knows he was in with the best fighter he ever fought.

Media: Would you rather fight (Oleg) Maskaev?

James Toney: I would fight Rahman right now.

Media: Are you surprised at his reluctance to fight you again?

James Toney: Yeah, he knows he got a gift.

Media: How long before you get back into the ring, or start training again?

James Toney: In two weeks. Doctor told pops two weeks. I want to get back in the gym , I want to get back in the ring. I want Hasim Rahman.

Media: If you were to face him again, how would your fight be any different?

James Toney: I'll be in tip-top shape and I'll knock him out. You see every time I hit him I was rocking him. You gotta remember, he was supposed to be the big, bad guy you guys were talking about. What do y'all say about him now? What do you think about him now? If he was at his best and I wasnt at my best. I had the flu, I could have postponed this like all these other sissies, all your so-called great fighters do like De La Hoya. I could have cancelled out and ran scared.

He was at his best that night, in great shape - I wasn’t. If I get in better shape, what makes you think I wont kill him the next time?

Media: Do you think there is more emphasis on volume punching than accuracy? You were far more accurate than Rahman.

James Toney: The referee, the judges, the judge John Stewart were high, drunk, constipated...whatever. He was throwing hard punches, but he was not hitting me. I was blocking everything, I was doing the old school sh*t on him. He was getting frustrated. He landed his right hand, I looked over and laughed at him - and he was like 'oh sh*t.'

Media: What's the latest on the negotiations between Dan Goossen and Top Rank, Steve Nelson and Hasim Rahman?

James Toney: Steve Nelson, Hasim Rahman, Bob Arum, Top Rank - they could all suck my d*ck. They are all some cattle catchers. Bob Arum knows he lost that fight. Bob Arum had the nerve to say "I think we did enough to win.' B*tch you know you didn’t win that fight. Bob Arum, his wife got his balls. Please send this to him. Everybody in Top Rank is ballless, ballless pricks.

Somehow they must have paid the WBC to overlook the incident and then fight Oleg Maskaev. So, they are going to fight Oleg Maskaev. If he was a real champion and he really thought he won that fight, he would try to fight me right away.

Media: You still have the IBA title?

James Toney: Yeah, it was a draw. I didn’t lose, I didn’t lose the title. I didn’t lose at all, I won the fight really.

If he was a man he would fight me. He's not going to make no money fighting Oleg Maskaev. He's going to make half a million dollars? Who's going to pay to see that? Would y'all? How is Bob Arum going to want that on the undercard of a Barrera fight? When was the last time you saw the heavyweight champion fight on the undercard? All of Don King's fighters do that, all of Bob Arum's fighters do that.

Media: Do you think that’s what’s wrong with the heavyweight division, everybody is trying to avoid everybody?

James Toney: No, everybody is trying to avoid me. That's the problem. If I'm a shotr, fat, rolli-pollie Motherf*cker, 250 pounds - why is everybody trying to avoid me? It shouldnt be problem, I should be the first one they pick on. Everyone from Samuel Peter on down.

This was the biggest joke I heard last week. They had Shannon Briggs on ESPN, in the studio. This son of a b*tch had the audacity to say that everybody was scared of him to fight him. The punk b*tch, I saw you in Cancun last month and you were scared to death when I walked to you. You son of a b*tch come fight me. I'll knock your f*cking dreads on your f*cking back.

Media: What about Sergei Liakhovich?

James Toney: He won the fight, he outhustled Lamon (Brewster). I feel bad for Lamon, he is a friend. If he wants to fight, It's time to go on. Talk to Dan, talk to Don. I'll fight Liakhovich or whatever his name is.

Media: What about Chris Byrd?

James Toney: I'll fight him, him and his wife. I got a girl, 185 pounds, ready to whoop her *ss and any other wife out there in boxing that’s trying to come to the sport. All of these wives out here are banding together. What's her name? Mosley's wife?

Media: Jin. I thought Jin was cool with you, the Mosleys?

James Toney: I'm cool with Shane. I don’t know her and don’t care to know her. And if Shane feels offended by it, f*ck him. I don’t care who I offend. If you like me, you like me. If you don’t, suck my d*ck. Shane and all these other guys who let their wives come in and try to control their minds - that's some f*ggots man. They got no heart, no balls, no backbone.

Media: What did you think about the Judah-Mayweather fight?

James Toney: I told y'all Mayweather was going to put it on him. Mayweather is the best fighter around that’s not a heavyweight.

Media: Do you think he can handle welterweight?

James Toney: Yeah. I think his biggest test will be if he fights Mosley.

Media: You don't think it would be a test if he fights Margarito?

James Toney: Oh man, I can’t believe I forgot my man. I love that dude. That dude is a bad fighter. Margarito is tough. If Mayweather uses movements, he can offset that. It would be a good fight, it won’t be a boring fight I'll tell you that. Ain’t no way in hell that Antonio Margarito can be in a bad fight.

Media: What about Tarver and Hopkins?

James Toney: They put another snore together. They are both going to be scared to hit each other, but I'm saying that I hope Bernard wins. I think he should win. Antonio Tarver ain’t got no heart. He's from the south, country boy picking cotton baskets. He's got bubble gum colored lips."

and some more head-scratchers...

Willie Pep, talking to an old opponent years after each retired. "Do you recognize me?" the old opponent asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognize you."

Mark Kaylor: "I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time."

Willie Pastrano, when asked by the ring doctor if he knew where he was: "You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the sh*t knocked out of me."

Henry Cooper, replying to boxing abolitionist, Baroness Edith Summerskill, about the brutalities of his sport.
Baroness: "Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?"
Cooper: "Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?"

Mike Tyson, on writer Wallace Matthews: "[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse."

Harry Carpenter: "It's not one of Bruno's fastest wins... but it's one of them."

Mark Kaylor: "I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight."

Lou Duva, Veteran boxing trainer, on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."

Blackie Sherrod, talking about a heavyweight contender: "He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts."

Max Baer, on Joe Louis: "He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."

Harry Kabakoff, on Chango Cruz: "The bum was up and down so many times I thought he was an Otis elevator."

Terry Lawless: "He's standing there making a sitting target of himself."

Mike Tyson, to the Nevada State Athletic Commission: "I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm also not Charles Manson."

Nick Wilshire: "I can only see it going one way, that's my way. How it's actually going to go I can't really say."

Tommy Farr: "Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed."

Dan Duva, on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King: " Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."

Alan Massengale, after Don Zimmer got knocked down by Pedro Martinez in the playoffs and Evander Holyfield lost to James Toney.: "I felt sorry for Zimmer this weekend. Next time, if he wants to rumble, maybe he should pick on someone a little closer to his age. Evander Holyfield might be available."

Harry Carpenter: "Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue."

Tex Cobb, responding to a reporter who said Cobb was a fat, cocaine snorting , drunk. Cobb replied: "I'm not fat.

Max Baer, when asked for his definition of fear: "Standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early."

George Foreman: "The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters."