Boxing Quotes

"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took, and your name in the undertaker book" "A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end" "Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body" "I've always been a sucker for a prize fight." "I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them" "When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had one fight in New York state that lasted twenty rounds. I got $6. But I won the fight. All the time I was getting knocked down, I kept getting up." "All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." "A lot of people throw punches in the ring, but the best fighters are those who can take it."