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Great Sporting Wisdom: Legendary Quotes from the World of Sport
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2018
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I came from a dirt farm. Now I’m filthy rich.
Larry Holmes
Not To Put A Tooth In It
The hardest thing about boxing is picking up your teeth with a boxing glove on.
Kin Hubbard
Noblesse Oblige
Boxing is described as a ‘noble art’ because the winner is usually the first to draw blood on the canvas.
Colin M. Jarman
Womaniser
I enjoy broad-jumping!
Sonny Liston on his hobbies
Relaxation Therapy
I don’t like money, actually, but I find it quiets my nerves.
Joe Louis
Affectionate
When women kiss, it always reminds me of prize-fighters shaking hands.
H. L. Mencken
Extra-body Experience
I’d like to borrow Muhammad Ali’s body for just forty-eight hours. There are three guys I’d like to beat up and four women I’d like to make love to.
Jim Murray
Rule Of Thumb
Queensbury Rules K.O.
Graffiti
Tunnel vision
Joe Bugner emerges from the tunnel wearing an outrageous green and white dressing-room.
Gary Richardson
Double Negative
I ain’t never liked violence.
Sugar Ray Robinson
Poet’s Corner
He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.
Eddie Shaw, on Herol ‘Bomber’ Graham
Double vision
I see two fellows in the ring; I hit the one that isn’t there and the one that is there hits me.
Billy Softly
The Arts Show
They called me ‘Rembrandt’ – because I spent so much time on the canvas.
Bob Hope
Face To Hand
He hit me among my face.
Henny Youngman
Uncertainty
How many chances do I get?
Chuck Wepner, during a standing count in his 1974 clash with Muhammad Ali, when the referee tried to test his senses by asking him what day it was
2. The Bad
Eye To Eye
His gloves, dear. I’ve never been hit by an eye in my life!
Terry Downes, when asked by a female reporter if he watched his opponent’s eyes or gloves
Against The Odds
I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
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