Before fighting Iran Berkley- He's gonna need an industrial-strength toothpick to pick the leather out of his teeth. I'm gonna hit this man so hard he's gonna grow an Afro.
Michael Olajide |
Before his fight with Cassius Clay-1 can be found the next couple of months trying to perfect my new punch - the lipbuttoner.
Archie Moore |
Earnie Shavers hit me, man, and knocked me face down on the canvas. I was in the land of make believe. I heard saxophones, trombones. I saw little blue rats, and they were all smoking cigars and drinking whisky.
James 'Quick' Tillfe |
Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.
Jerry Izenberg Newark Star-Ledger |
George Chuvalo's best punch is a left cheek to the right glove.
Larry Merchant |
I get worried when a guy goes down, in case he doesn't get up - for me to hit him again.
Nigel Benn |
I know it's said that I can't punch, but you should see me putting the cat out at night.
Chris Flnnegan |
Jack Dempsey hits like an epileptic pile-driver.
Harry C.Witwert |
Larry Holmes doesn't hit as hard as Earnie Shavers. Nobody hits like Shavers. If anybody hit harder than Shavers, I'd shoot him.
Randall Tex'Cobb |
My three best punches were the choke hold, the rabbit punch and the head butt.
Chuck Wepner |
On a possible second encounter with Larry Holmes, having been heavily beaten in the first match - I don't think his hands could take the abuse.
Randall Tex' Cobb |
On being asked to name his best punch - I don't know, I've never hit myself.
Elisha Obed |
On being hit by Joe Louis - It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off... When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.
James J. Braddock |
On his fight with Floyd Patterson being switched to the Windy City- Don't matter where the fight is. My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.
Sonny Listen |
On hitting Johnny Bumphus while he was still rising from his stool - The bell went ding and I went dong.
Uoyd Honeyghan |
On knocking out Jimmy Ellis - When I hit Jimmy with that left it felt like when you hit a baseball and it goes right into deep field.
Joe Frazier (1970) |
On measuring punches in terms of prize money- Jack Dempsey hit me hardest, 'cos Dempsey hit me 211,000 dollars' worth, while Joe Louis only hit me 36,000 dollars' worth.
JackSharkey |
On taking a punch to the head- It opens a spacious firmament to the bewildered eyes, wherein you discover more planets in a second than most distinguished astronomers observe in a lifetime.
Professor Ned Donnelly SoH-Defence, or The Art of Boxing (1897) |
Rocky Marciano didn't know enough boxing to know what a feint was. He never tried to out-guess you. He just kept trying to knock your brains out.
Archie Moore |
The right cross-counter is distinctly one of those things which is more blessed to give than to receive.
P. G. Wodehouse The Pothunters (1902) |
When you're knocked down with a good shot, you don't feel pain. In fact it's a very lovable feeling. Maybe it's like taking dope. It's like floating. You feel you love everybody - like a hippie, I guess.
Floyd Pattenon (1970) |
