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Boxing Quotes
For a sport so brutal (and barbaric, whatever the pretense of sweet science
it is), it seems for most part the literary smarts of our dear boxer legends
are least to be considered. But there are those that display remarkable sets
of wit; is this the first sign of civilization? Will the sport ascend from
throwing around punches to throwing witticisms, insults and vulgarities
instead?
There are some of those boxing quotes that due to sensational promotions had
become so published that it made easy into everyone’s lists of triteness.
But yet, these boxing quotes had become mantras to some faithful. Boxing
quotes, here are the best of them.
Muhammad Ali has become the typecast for a boxer whose wit is as good as his
reach, whatever it may mean to most of you. Like when he quoted after
failing an intelligence test for the army:
“I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.”
Of course this may be a veiled cleverness, for Ali was not especially keen
in serving the army, especially not while he was still basking under the
limelight for flooring the champion Sonny Liston as an underdog.
For some, Ali’s boxing quotes speaks all too clearly of an over-inflated
head. And he seems to be conscious of this, because after a number of
barefaced questions attacking his super ego, his retort was:
“At home I am a nice guy, but I don't want the world to know. Humble people,
I've found, don't get very far.”
Muhammad Ali was better known for the boxing quote “dance like a butterfly,
sting like a bee”, a tactic that should have prepared Liston since Ali was
none too secretive in saying this to the media. This boxing quote, it seems,
is one of the better boxing quotes of the man, minus his ever-present ego
rant.
Tony Galento was one of the more colorful boxers in history. “Two-Ton Tony”
was a seldom defeated giant whose width is matched with a perfectly poor
intellect. Such as when he was asked about Shakespeare:
“I ain’t never heard of him. I suppose he's one of them foreign
heavyweights. They're all lousy. Sure as hell I'll moider de bum”.
He also called most of his opponents “de bum”, in particular Joe Louis whom
he did an extra mile to call him “dum” and that he, Galento, would “moida
him”. That of course did not happen as Joe Louis got a KO victory over him.
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