Larry Merchant Quotes

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• Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.
• No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.
• Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.
• There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.
• Nothing will kill boxing, and nothing can save it.
• I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a…
• It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention.
• Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the…
• The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.
• Just because you BEAT Michael Jordan doesn't mean you BECOME Michael Jordan.
• Jameel McCline acts as if attacking Wladimir Klitschko is akin to attacking Russia during winter
• This fight figures to be crunk
• Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.
• To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.
• Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?
• If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass
• The Super Bowl is like Christmas shopping at Macy's for bookies.

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