Heavyweights Quotes
62 quotes by 45 authors
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That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound...I'd say I'm…
— Muhammad Ali
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You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.
— Muhammad Ali
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I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it…
— Muhammad Ali
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Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and all…
— Larry Holmes
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I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.
— Jim Brown
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Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.
— Larry Holmes
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I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I…
— Larry Holmes
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But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job -…
— Christopher Meloni
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That Mitt Romney, he is a master campaigner. This week he was introducing his wife, and he said, 'She is the heavyweight champion of my…
— Bill Maher
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When Don King's fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar…
— Larry Holmes
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Many people who have been around boxing all those years never had a champion, certainly a heavyweight champion....For that to happen in one's lifetime is…
— Cus D'Amato
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When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight
— Michael Bolton
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One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of…
— Mike Tyson
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I'm the best fighter in the world. No one can beat me....My objective is to inflict as much pain as possible, to win and win…
— Mike Tyson
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Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me.…
— Joe Frazier
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Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!
— Muhammad Ali
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A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the…
— Steve Sabol
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Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I…
— Gene Tunney
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Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.
— Jim Bailey
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No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come…
— Tommy Gibbons
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