BOXING QUOTES
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Larry Holmes on the continued low blows by Gerry Cooney:
"I knew he wanted my Cup. I just didn't know he wanted that one."
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One of Harry Greb's opponents (Chuck Wiggins, I think) remarked after fighting him something along the lines of ...
"I thought somebody opened up a boxcar and dropped a train load of boxing gloves on my head."
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"The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters."
- George Foreman
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"On a scale of 1-10, I'll give myself a B." - Evander Holyfield
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Charley Goldstein, after being told Marciano didn't look so good:
"The guy on floor don't look so good either."
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tommy "hurricane" jackson's manager after jackson was dropped three times by nino valdez and stopped by the three knockdown rule:
"My guy was just getting warmed up.'
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A club fighter in Cincinnati after being outpointed:
"If just two of the judges had voted for me I'd have won."
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"I'm not going to make any predictions, but I'll win." - Frank Bruno
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To being criticised for losing to 37-year-old Daniel Zaragoza:
"Actually, he's 39." - Wayne McCullough
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"The referee stopped it too early." - Audley Harrison, after getting knocked clean unconscious for several minutes by Michael Sprott.
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"It's a shame that someone has to lose this fight, but lose it someone will have to, unless the referee scores it a draw, and he won't want to do that unless he really can't pick a winner."
- BBC commentator Jim Neilly submits his entry for the "no sh1t!" award
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"I preferred when boxing was on ITV." - Nigel Benn, as a pundit, ensures he'll get no further work with the BBC
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When I was a kid, I remember reading a quote from an opponent of Ray Leonard who got KOed. The post fight announcer asked him "Which punch hurt you the most."
The reply was "The last one."
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