"I don't think Joe Louis could take the……" — Larry Holmes
"I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era."
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48 Quotes by Larry Holmes
Larry Holmes has 48 quotes on this site.
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All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps
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Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier…
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We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our…
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I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished…
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People think that I reached the top overnight; well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really…
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Tyson is a lot better than I thought, a lot better. People can talk about Spinks all they want... Tyson…
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The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when…
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You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
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Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing…
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When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it.…
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I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my…
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More Era Quotes
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I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
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I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era.…
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will…
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We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.
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Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be…
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