Most awesome quotes from boxers?

No mention of Tex Cob???

In 1980 or so, there was a big dinner honouring heavyweights of the past and present. Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and Larry Holmes were all there. So were Renaldo Snipes and Tex Cobb. In his usual fashion, Tex Cobb got up to give a toast. He said, "I'm honoured to be in the same room as some of the baddest niqqers ever." Renaldo Snipes stood up, and said, "I'm not going to stand here and let you call me a niqqer!" Cobb said, "Relax. I wasn't talking about you."

"All I do is hit somebody in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do." When asked how he viewed his boxing career.

"Sure, I'd love to fight him. But I have my price, twenty-five cents and a loose woman." On if he'd like to fight Gerry Cooney.

"You run for 45 minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you just hang out and talk tough." On the typical day of a pro boxer.

"This fight will be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. I've been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious." On his upcoming fight with Michael Dokes.

"If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ***, darling!" On how tough fighting can be.

"I miss having bottle fatigue. Abstinence is for monks - not for me. This kind of life is really over-rated. I mean, I'm actually getting to sleep before I have breakfast." On keeping sober during training.

"I've always thought the greatest crime a man can do is take himself too seriously. I mean, something like fighting is pretty ridiculous to take seriously. What I do is hit people, I'm not promoting anything that is real or valuable." On how he looks at fighting for a living.

On the Larry Holmes fight, Cobb's biggest ever bout.

"No, Larry don't hit as hard as Earnie Shavers. No-one hits as hard as Shavers. If there was a fighter that hit harder than Shavers, I shoot him!"

"I wasn't talking to Holmes in there. Every time I felt like saying something to him I found it hard because he kept putting his left hand in my mouth."

"Hey, you're a white guy, do something about this!" To the ref in the Holmes fight.

"I'd have been more active in there, if only I'd been a little more sober."

"Let's party!" To Holmes as they touched gloves for round 15.

"I don't think his hands could take the abuse." On a possible rematch with Holmes.

And finally, three of Cobb's absolute gems.

"I can do my sport no greater service." On being informed that commentator Howard Cosell had hung up his mike after being so appalled at the one-sidedness of the Holmes-Cobb fight.

"Boxing writers are the only people out there who have less constructive jobs than what I do. I don't do nothing but hit people, and those mothers don't do nothing but write about what I do!"

"Yeah, I've been KO'd. Once. By a Mexican bantamweight. How come? Six of my buddies were swinging him around by the heels at the time."

TONGUE-CLICK!

Wow! I can think of many. The trouble is deciding which ones to pick here. I'd be typing til midnight.......................tomorrow!

I can tell you this. If I could pick ten, nine of them would come from Muhammad ALI. The man could talk but he did it with style. Listening to the moron $#!T talkers who followed him, and tried to imitate him, is painful. I can still remember many of ALI's quotes clearly.

I can list a few of my favorites. I'll never be able to list them all.

"This will be a mismatch. Floyd Patterson will be no match. He's to short. He's too slow. He don't hit hard. He can't take a punch. He don't have the reach. . . . I will hit him three times for every miss he throws..................Muhammad ALI

Muhammad ALI: "They told me you were through".

Joe Frazier: "They lied chump".

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks, will accomplish nothing in life...........Muhammad ALI

"A man who views the world, at age 50, the same way he did at age 20, has wasted 30 years of his life". ...............Muhammad ALI.

"Hating people because of their color is wrong. It doesn't matter which color does the hating, it's just plain wrong".....................Muhammad ALI

" It's just a job. Grass grows. Birds fly. Waves pound the sand. I beat people up. . . . ...... Muhammad ALI.

"I wish people would love everyone else the way they love me. The world would be a better place". ...................Muhammad ALI

Another of my favorites.

"I done wrestled with an alligator and tussled with a whale.

I done handcuffed lightning and put thunder in jail.

Last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

Man, I'm so mean I make medicine sick...................Muhammad ALI

I'm so fast, last night I turned out the light in my bedroom and was in bed before the room got dark. ........................Muhammad ALI.

I had a blast listening to ALI.

I realize some of the things he said about Joe Frazier wasn't very nice. However, I did get a huge kick out of one of his pranks. When they were in Manila, Joe Frazier was on the balcony of his hotel. ALI grabbed a gun from a security guard and started firing shots at Joe........scared the hell out of him.

Of course, the gun was loaded with blanks. But Joe didn't know that. I love a good joke. I'm probably due some time in hell for some pranks I've pulled. I know some don't like that ALI sometimes took it too far. The gun thing probably would not have been nearly as funny if someone besides ALI pulled it.

: )

I'm a pugilist specialist , i'm like a fine wine that machure's with age - Lennox Lewis

Kostya Tszyu is a bum & Zab Judah is nothing but a little street punk - Freddie Pendleton after Hatton defeat

This was a great one just before the opening bell the ref asked Antonio Tarver and Roy Jones Jr. do you have any questions.? Jones said nothing but Tarver said .Do you have any excuses this time Roy? Then he went out and Knocked Jones out cold. This was classic guys.

He built his record fighting Tijuana cab drivers. Greg Haugan about Julio Cesar Chavez.

Before the first fight w/ Liston, Ali said:

"A big man, is never intimidated by another big man. A tough man, is never intimidated by another tough man. But we're all afraid of a crazy man".

The quote is cool, but the best thing is how Ali went out and acted like a psycho.

He'd talk crazy at press conferences, and rumor has it that one night he parked his car on Sonny Liston's lawn, and was screaming something like "Come on out, you big ugly bear! I'll kick your asss right now, we don't have to wait!".

lol he definitely FREAKED Liston the f*ck out.

Float like a buttetfly sting like a bee - Muhammad Ali,

"Everyone has a gameplan until they get punched in the face". Mike Tyson

Floyd Joy: Im afraid of nobody

Floyd Joy: Pacquiao is just nobody

Floyd Joy: Yes, Manny Pacquiao you are next ...oopps I didnt said that! Dont put words in my mouth

Floyd JOy: Manny needs to do is take the test then we have a fight.... then no ppvs for him

ROFLMAO

when lennox said something about david tua needing more than "a left hook and a haircut"