Larry Merchant Quotes

• There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.

  Larry Merchant

  Thinking, Boxing, Body

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• Nothing will kill boxing, and nothing can save it.

  Larry Merchant

  Boxing

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• Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?

  Larry Merchant

  Fall, Punishment, Boxing

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• If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass

  Larry Merchant

  Years, Boxing, Ass

  "Analyst Larry Merchant to End Run With HBO Boxing After 35 Years" by Jose Martinez, www.complex.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

  Larry Merchant

  Wisdom, Eye, Guy

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• To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.

  Larry Merchant

  Glasses, Boxing, Insult

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• Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.

  Larry Merchant

  Boxing, May, Six Packs

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• Just because you BEAT Michael Jordan doesn't mean you BECOME Michael Jordan.

  Larry Merchant

  Mean, Jordan, Beats

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• Vitali Klitschko doesn't get enough credit for how intelligent he fights, because he knows when to throw at the target and when to throw through the target.

  Larry Merchant

  Fighting, Intelligent, Target

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• I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a great fighter, came to such an ignominious end.

  Larry Merchant

  Thinking, Boxing, Able

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• This fight figures to be crunk

  Larry Merchant

  Fighting, Figures

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• Jameel McCline acts as if attacking Wladimir Klitschko is akin to attacking Russia during winter

  Larry Merchant

  Winter, Russia, Attacking

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• Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.

  Larry Merchant

  Caring, Gambling, Glands

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• Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

  Larry Merchant

  Too Much, Youth, Talent

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• It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention.

  Larry Merchant

  Break Through, Trying, Attention

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• No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.

  Larry Merchant

  Gambling, Use, Ifs

  Larry Merchant (1973). “The national football lottery”

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• The Super Bowl is like Christmas shopping at Macy's for bookies.

  Larry Merchant

  Shopping, Super Bowl, Macy's

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• The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.

  Larry Merchant

  Porsche, Truck, Thorough

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