Larry Holmes Quotes - Page 2

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• It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.

  Larry Holmes

  Brother, Eight, Giving

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• The seventies and eighties are when the division was really good. The fights were very enjoyable and everyone knew when the next fight was. Nowadays, you don't even know who won a fight three days after it happens. We need heavyweights, the people want heavyweights.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, People, Heavyweights

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• I train myself. I don't have trainers who want hundreds of thousands of dollars to train me. I hire who I want to put the grease on my face, to rub my neck and rub my back, to take my mouthpiece out and rinse it off and put the mouthpiece back in. And then I go about my business. And if they want to say something, they can give me little reminders. All you need are reminders. You don't need 'big-time' trainers.

  Larry Holmes

  Giving, Grease, Dollars

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I don't like Larry Merchant. He thinks he knows everything about a sport that he was never in. He walks around with papers and studies what he writes, he just pisses you off.

  Larry Holmes

  Sports, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• Whether I make two dollars or no dollars, it's better than losing. I've got enough people playing the games at the casino that I don't lose any money. So it's good for me, and it's fun.

  Larry Holmes

  Fun, Games, Two

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I cursed [Larry Merchant] out once, and I told him that he was a phony.

  Larry Holmes

  Phony, Larry, Merchants

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• I don't think Mike Tyson's a bad guy. I think the people, the media, makes him out to be a bad guy.

  Larry Holmes

  Thinking, Media, People

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I'm tired. I am old and I have never quit pursuing my goals. I am heavily involved in real estate right now, but I am trying to get out of it altogether, I am just tired.

  Larry Holmes

  Real, Tired, Goal

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• Tex Cobb would call me every day after we fought, I got sick of talking to him. I liked him a lot as a fighter, and as a person, and feel that sometimes he was misunderstood.

  Larry Holmes

  Talking, Sick, Misunderstood

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• That guy [Floyd Mayweather] is throwing his money around like there is no tomorrow.

  Larry Holmes

  Guy, Floyd Mayweather, Tomorrow

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• I don't see anything happening [in heavyweight division] when I watch these fights, they are very boring. Not only that, but you never heard of any of the fighters.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, Heavyweights, Division

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• I always enjoy myself fighting in Mississippi. I enjoy myself fighting anywhere.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, Enjoy, Mississippi

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I did a job, [Don King] took money, probably more than he should have. If I was supposed to get $10 million, I was lucky to get $6.5 million. It happens and you can't do much, you decide whether to take it or leave it. King was a promoter, and he was good at it.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Jobs, Should Have

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• I think a lot of people like to gamble, and they don't want to go to the casino to gamble. Sometimes they want to do it in the privacy of their home. They can't concentrate the way they want to in a gambling casino.

  Larry Holmes

  Home, Thinking, Gambling

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I think Roy Jones is a great fighter, a great puncher. But you know, he doesn't use the jab. But he's got everything else going for him. The problem that hurts Roy Jones in the boxing business, in the celebrity business, is his attitude. Attitude hurts, because you say a lot of things that you probably don't really mean and you say them because you don't want to be put down. But you've got a lot of people who don't like what you say, and that hurts. And that's what Roy Jones has been hurt by. That's what I have been hurt by.

  Larry Holmes

  Hurt, Attitude, Mean

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I think gambling can be a good thing if you don't take it too seriously. Take it and have fun with it, and don't lose what you can't afford to lose.

  Larry Holmes

  Fun, Thinking, Gambling

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Oliver McCall was someone who I never really got to know too well, and he had some well-publicized problems.

  Larry Holmes

  Problem, Wells, Knows

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• Mike Tyson always had a big heart, but one of his problems is that he's short. And he's got kind of a personal attitude. But that don't make him a great fighter.

  Larry Holmes

  Attitude, Heart, Fighter

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Mike Tyson does a lot of things that shows he wants to win. He might hit you after the bell, he might hit you a little low, but he wants to win the fight. I think if he controls himself, he's okay.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, Thinking, Winning

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• The media loves to take things like that [Rocky Marciano couldn't hold my jockstrap] out of context. There was no harm meant when I said that, but plenty of harm came from it.

  Larry Holmes

  Media, Harm, Said

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• Let people live their lives, as long as they don't hurt anybody. As long as they don't destroy their own lives.

  Larry Holmes

  Hurt, Long, People

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Kenny Norton hit me so hard that it still hurts. Now there was a case of two fighters who did not like each other.

  Larry Holmes

  Hurt, Two, Fighter

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, White, Boxing

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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 against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Fighting, Boxing

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• You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.

  Larry Holmes

  Class, Guy, Today

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