Latest Larry Holmes Quotes from Interviews

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• My actions speak louder than my words.

  Larry Holmes

  Action, Speak, Actions Speak Louder

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

• 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

• I'm not a guy who counts cards. I'm a guy that plays with feeling. Because I feel that if something is going to come up, it comes up; if it doesn't, it doesn't. And a lot of people get pissed at me because that's the way I play but that's the way I learned to play - with my feelings.

  Larry Holmes

  Play, People, Guy

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

• 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

• I think the world is changing. And it's changing so fast that people have to change with it.

  Larry Holmes

  Thinking, People, World

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Fighters DON'T know how to jab. You take Roy Jones, for instance. He paws his jab. He throws it out, it don't land. And then he'll hit you with a left hook, hit you with a right hand. But he doesn't really know the jab. A guy needs to learn the jab, know the jab, and use the jab. And these guys don't do it today.

  Larry Holmes

  Hands, Land, Guy

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

• When the bell rings, your trainer can't help you.

  Larry Holmes

  Bells, Helping, Trainers

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

• 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

• I think a trainer is very important at the beginning of a fighter's career. A fighter needs to know how to throw a left, throw a right, how to duck, how to do certain things. Over time, you don't really need a trainer. You've got to train yourself. You've got to motivate yourself. And I don't think anybody can put that in you.

  Larry Holmes

  Thinking, Careers, Ducks

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

• The only thing I'd like to see is to give fighters an option to wear a small headguard, a one-ounce headguard. Some fighters might not want that option. But you know - you're training all the time, you're boxing all the time, and you've got a headguard on, you're using big gloves, and you're getting hit. And you observe that your face is better protected that way. Now they're doing it with ten-ounce gloves and no headguard. I think if they have a one-ounce headguard on to protect some of those brain cells in the head, it would be beneficial to the fighter.

  Larry Holmes

  Thinking, Cells, Giving

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

• Boxing is already stable, as far as the opportunity to fight, opportunity for fighters to step inside the ring and make some money - I think that's OK, that's fairly legit. I just think fighters need to be represented when it comes down to making sure the "i" is dotted and the "t" is crossed.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

• I don't think boxing needs to be regulated. I think boxing needs to have a complaint board. And I think the complaint board should be able to look into boxing situations - as far as if you're getting what you should be getting, whether you're being managed, not being managed, etc.

  Larry Holmes

  Thinking, Boxing, Etc

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, Enjoy, Mississippi

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

• Mike Tyson is a sharp puncher. Earnie Shavers was a PUNISHING puncher. There was a difference between the two. Because when Shavers hit you, you feel it all the way through your body.

  Larry Holmes

  Two, Differences, Body

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Larry Holmes

  Phony, Larry, Merchants

  Source: www.paneech.com

• [My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.

  Larry Holmes

  Drinking, Too Much, Budweiser

  Source: www.paneech.com

• 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

• 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

• 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