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Quote Sport Unquote

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Boxing

 

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Muhammad Ali

 

I told you all I would do it, but did you listen? He was scared, he was humiliated. I told you I was the greatest heavyweight of all time. I kept telling him during the fight to show me something, to come on and punch. Come on, you’re the champion! Show me something.

Muhammad Ali on George Foreman, 1974.

 

I am the greatest.

Muhammad Ali

 

These people want to ban boxing because black people are now in control. All the champions are black. Many of the promoters and managers are black. When we had all the white champions, they never talked about stopping it.

Muhammad Ali

 

Marciano played a different sport from Cockell. He butted unmercifully, he hit with his elbows, he hit low. A British referee would have sent him to his corner after three rounds.

Eamonn Andrews

 

He likes to go to bed early, so tell him to bring a blanket. He can have it placed over him in the ring.

Tim Witherspoon on Frank Bruno.

 

What did I learn from my defeat? Not to come out for the 11th round.

Frank Bruno

 

Boxing's just show business with blood.

Frank Bruno

 

You could have set him to music when he was performing in the ring with a grace and style that was almost ballet. Until he let fly with his ferocious combinations that owed more to ballistics than ballet.

Henry Cooper on Sugar Ray Robinson.

 

I’d like to retire with my brains still in contact.

Errol Graham

 

I’m 35 fighting young men. Rocky Marciano was 25 and fighting old men. Rocky couldn’t carry my jockstrap.

Larry Holmes.

 

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.

Larry Holmes

 

'I had a brainwave but decided to sleep on it. It’s a new idea to take the aggression out of sport. Non-aggressive boxing ' said Tom, taking a mouthful of McBlane's exquisite red cabbage. 'Each person hits himself instead of his opponent.'

'That's a very interesting idea' said Reggie.

'Knock out,' said Tony.

That's exactly what it won't be,' said Reggie. 'Well done Tom'

The second bout began sensationally. The businessman who answered to the name of Edwards rushed into the middle of the ring, hit himself violently in the balls, cried 'below the belt you swine', and collapsed in a groaning heap.

David Nobbs, The Better World of Reginald Perrin.

 

As long as an American’s standing after three rounds it’s hard to get a decision.

Redzep Redzepovski, Yugoslavian boxer and Olympic silver medallist

 

In the clearing stands a boxer,

And a fighter by his trade

And he carries the reminders

Of ev'ry glove that laid him down

And cut him till he cried out

In his anger and his shame.

"I am leaving, I am leaving"

But the fighter still remains.

Paul Simon, The Boxer from Bridge Over Troubled Water

 

The harmless act of knucklebones has seen the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the United States.

Robert Louis Stevenson

 

No, I don’t mind the fight being at three in the morning. Everyone in Glasgow fights at three in the morning.

Jim Watt