BOXING QUOTES
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Muhammad Ali
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"Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid—only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough."
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When asked about his golf game: "I'm the best. I just haven't played yet."
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“Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.”
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“My toughest fight was with my first wife, and she won every round.”
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James Toney
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“The fight with Ruiz is going to be any way he wants to make it. He can do it the hard way, get beat up for 12 rounds and end up in the hospital. Or, he can do it the easy way, get hit on the chin and go to sleep.”
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“Evander and I are great warriors. We put blood and guts in the ring. We do not run around and hug and kiss. Well, Evander might do that, but I do not.”
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“Dominick Guinn was the only one in the top 10 who had the balls to get into the ring with me! You got Chris Byrd, Wladimir Klitschko, Vitali Klitschko. They all suddenly gotta be doin' something else or having surgery or something like that.”
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“You do not want anyone to run around for 12 rounds unless you are in the ballet.”
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“I was not right the first time against Jones. He took advantage of it and won the fight. Bring his ass on now. Bring anybody. Lewis, Klitschko, Tyson, Jones, their mommas. I will knock them all out.”
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Randall "Tex" Cobb
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Cobb’s reply on being told that his savage beating against Larry Holmes persuaded Howard Cosell to never again commentate on another boxing match. "If I had known that’s what it would take to get Cosell to quit doing boxing I would have fought Holmes a long time ago."
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Cobb on after being knocked down in a fight he was involved in -
"When I got up I stuck to my plan -- stumbling forward and getting hit in the face."
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Cobb on an attempt to berate Don King - "I was at this affair with a bunch of different people involved in the boxing business, and King shows up. I stood up and called him every name in the book. King was slick, though. He extended an arm my way, took the floor, and said, ‘Let’s hear it for Tex Cobb, a great entertainer, great showman…’ He made it sound like I was just putting on."
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“I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.”
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“Philadelphia is the only place where you see two winos in a street fight jabbing.”
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“Larry Holmes doesn't hit as hard as Earnie Shavers. Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him.”
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Cobb on being asked his best punch – “I don't know, I've never hit myself.”
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