Funny quotes from (any) boxers

[NeXt In Line]

Seeming as Tyson's quotes caused a few laughs thought I'd get everyone involved.. Here's a few to get the ball rolling...

"There are many fatalities in boxing, but none of them are serious"
Alan Minter

" I'll whoop you, I'll whoop ya brother, I'll whoop ya father & I'll even whoop ya mama to!"
James Toney to Chris Eubank

" Your just ignorant "
Eubanks Reply

" Gary Stretch? I'll hit him so hard, he'll be nicked for speeding!"
Nigel Benn

" They brought him over here to beat me up.. Jim Watt, Barry McGuigan, Jim Rossenthal.. You're all a load of hand jobs!

Benn (Immediately after beating McClellan & making a hand gesture with his gloved right hand.. This was on live TV)

" Get me Jesus Christ!" Joe Bugner " You're only saying that cos you know he's got bad hands" Hugh McKilvenny (writer)

" No way did that happen to me" Lennox Lewis after being sparked by HM

" The harder I train the luckier I get!" Willie Pastrano

" If you think that Harry, why don't you get in ring with him?"
Terry Downes to Harry Carpenter after being KO'd by Pastrano

" No white boy's ever gonna beat me" Bernard Hopkins

" I'd tear Daniel Day Lewis a new arsehole" Mickey Rourke

" Come on then, my son! Gloves off now!" Nigel Benn when Barclay called him a cheat after getting stopped in the 1st..

" Of course Andries has more experience than me! He's been knocked out & I haven't" Jeff Harding (he got KO'd in that one)

Sorry most of them are from the UK, but that's where I'm from.. Look forward to some side splitters! Regards MM

Holy ****TTTT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That quote is HILARIOUS.

[deevel79]

"I'm gonna send him back to Africa to pick Corn"

-James Tony speaking about Sam Peter b4 thier fight

[IchiBonDj]

I like the line from the movie Only In America when Don King is getting Foreman to sign a contract while in the washroom. As Don King passes the pen, Foreman asks "aren't you gonna wash your hands?" and Don King replies, "I wash my hands before I touch my ****."

[mickey malone]

'ive seen george foreman shadow-boxing,and the shadow won'-muhammed ali

'if you ever dream of beating me,u better wake up and apologize'-ali

'my girlfriend boos me when we make love because she knows it turns me on'-hector camacho

'they voted joe the ***iest man in wales,and im second,cuz im his dad'-enzo calzaghe

'im going down so often these days you'd think i as in a blue movie'-john conteh

'its hard being black,u ever been black? i was black once,when i was poor'-larry holmes

'the chances of a lewis rematch r slim and none,and slims out of town'-don king

Quality! Don King lol.. There's bound to be a book of quotes from him...

Just a quicky from Chris Eubank...(on Benn)

"Had it not been for his talents as a boxer, he would be a bouncer in a disco. living on a council estate with 4 children from 3 different mothers."

[SlickRikki]

Joshua Clottey "He Cannot Tek My Pounches"

[MANGLER]

'I'll fight anybody from 154 on down.' - Mr boat buyer

[GJC]

One of my favourites is another Terry Downes line. 3rd fight of his career (3rd!) he is matched with an unknown late great **** Tiger. Terry brave but limited, future World Champ so not a mug. **** Tiger one of the greats, double world champ etc etc. Can you imagine how much that would cost to put on? This fight was in Shoreditch! So Terry gets slaughtered and when interviewed after the fight was asked "Obviously a disappointment Terry any idea who you will fight next?"
Terry replies " Yeah the **** that arranged that fight for me"

[GJC]

The great Willie Pep was always good for a quote:

Long before Zsa Zsa Gabor he said "My wives were good housekeepers. After the divorces, they kept the houses."

"I've got it made. I have a refrigerator, a car and a wife – and they're all working."

"Spaghetti and meatballs killed more Italians than all the wars."

"I followed one motto in my boxing career: He who hits and runs away lives to fight another day."

During one speech, Pep made a confession to the audience: "You've got to put one more loss down (on my record). I lost one more fight." Then, pointing into the audience, he said "to my wife, Barbara."

"My whole career, I've had bad hands and I couldn't understand it. But then I realized that the referee kept stepping on them."

Willie's son Billy Papaleo told this story: "One time in the corner, the guy's saying 'I want to fight Willie Pep. Damn it, I want to fight Willie Pep.' And the trainer says, 'how many times do I have to tell you, YOU are Willie Pep.'"

And my favourite.....Forty years after the peak of his career, an old opponent met Pep on the street. "Do you recognize me?" he asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying, "lie down so I can recognize you."

Willie Pep some fighter, now had he have had a knock out punch there would have been an end to all the pound for pound arguments.

[GJC]

Some great lines from Tex Cobb:

During the Cobb-Shavers fight..
"Dont worry Tex he aint hurting ya"
Tex "Well you'd better watch that goddam ref then cause somebody is"

Tex Cobb to ref Steve Crosson during Holmes -Cobb fight.... "Go ask Holmes if he wants to give up yet."

Tex to Crosson after the final bell.. "Ref give me 3 more rounds I'll knock his ass out Larry cant hit me no more his hands hurt him too much"

Tex "My claim to fame .. After the Holmes fight he went to hospital for x rays on his hands I went to the bar and had a beer Through a straw Larry turned down a rematch with me He was scared his hands couldnt take it"

And last but by no means least....

Tex Cobb and a lot of the top contenders and champions of the 80's were at a special dinner in their honor, and Tex stood up to toast and said "Wow, I'm at the same dinner with some of the toughest ni**ers that ever lived!"

And Renaldo Snipes stood up all pissed off and said "You think I'm gonna just sit here and let you call me a ni**er?!"

Cobb responded with "I wasn't refering to you Mr. Snipes."

[mickey malone]

One of my favourites is another Terry Downes line. 3rd fight of his career (3rd!) he is matched with an unknown late great **** Tiger. Terry brave but limited, future World Champ so not a mug. **** Tiger one of the greats, double world champ etc etc. Can you imagine how much that would cost to put on? This fight was in Shoreditch! So Terry gets slaughtered and when interviewed after the fight was asked "Obviously a disappointment Terry any idea who you will fight next?"
Terry replies " Yeah the **** that arranged that fight for me"

Superb! lol lol...
A good mate of mine used to spar and drink with Downsey.. I've heard so many funny stories about him.. Apparently, he can't be taken anywhere.. He sits down, breaks off a huge cigar inside a pipe! Then smokes out the room while insulting everyone in sundry.. I have a signed picture of him smoking his pipe in my bar..
Loved your research on Pep also.. Always on my TT lists.. Regards MM