"Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion……" — Larry Holmes
"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 those guys. Because they were older than me and I was doing my thing."
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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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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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I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought th fight for the people.…
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And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I…
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I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn…
— Muhammad Ali
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Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.
— Robert Goulet
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It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.
— Robert Goulet
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...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and…
— Toby Lester
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Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.
— Robert Duvall
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The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat…
— Howard Cosell
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...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.
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