Great Sporting Wisdom: Legendary Quotes from the World of Sport. John Scally

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СКАЧАТЬ Frazier in 1975

      Behind Every Great Man . . .

      I don’t know what impressive is, but Joe was impressive tonight.

       Marlene Bugner

      Crowd Pleaser

      When I got into the boxing ring, women used to scream with delight because usually I’d left my shorts in the locker.

       Roy Brown

      Metaphorically Speaking

      That’s cricket. You get these sorts of things in boxing.

       Frank Bruno, after Jorge Vaca took Lloyd Honeyghan’s world title following an accidental clash of heads

      Of Biblical Proportions

      Joe Bugner: Get me Jesus Christ, I’ll fight him tomorrow!

      Hugh McIlvanney: Joe, you’re only saying that because you know he’s got bad hands.

      Know What I Mean, Harry?

      They said it would last two rounds – they were half wrong, it lasted four.

       Harry Carpenter

      No Contest

      I’m the best heavyweight fighter in Canada and I’ll still be the best when I’m dead seven years.

       George Chuvalo

      Daddy’s Girl

      This baby was planned. Before conception I had wanted a girl. It’s uncanny how I always get what I want.

       Chris Eubank

      Finnegan’s Awake

      I know it’s said I can’t punch, but you should see me putting the cat out at night.

       Chris Finnegan

      Fair Fight

      Sure, the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

       George Foreman, on his 1994 victory over Michael Moorer

      The Eyes Have It

      His potatoes kept getting cut eyes.

       Reg Gutteridge, on why Henry Cooper quit his greengrocer’s business

      Hair Today. Gone Tomorrow

      With four sisters about the house, I could never get my hands on a comb.

       ‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler on his shaven head

      Poetic Justice

      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.

       Muhammad Ali

      A Vote of No Confidence

      A lot of boxing promoters couldn’t match the cheeks СКАЧАТЬ