Heavyweights Quotes - Page 4

• Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him.

  Joe Frazier

  Champion, Doubt, Beats

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• Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!

  Muhammad Ali

  Underwater, World, Knows

  Twitter post from Feb 16, 2011

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• A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.

  Steve Sabol

  Mean, Fighting, Perfect

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.

  Gene Tunney

  Dream, Morning, Believe

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• No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.

  Tommy Gibbons

  Color, Boxing, Champion

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• MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Regret, Boxing, Champion

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• I had two ACL injuries in my life, and both of them happened when I was training with bigger guys; a heavyweight and a light heavyweight. Sometimes it's not even because the guy is good, you just get hurt.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Hurt, Light, Two

  Source: www.bloodyelbow.com

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• With the Klitschkos, though, unless someone comes around, they can stay where they are forever! The heavyweight division is lackluster, and it will be until someone comes along who can test them.

  Gerry Cooney

  Forever, Division, Tests

  Source: www.boxing247.com

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• It's not my place to compare myself to greats like Tyson, Frazier or men like that. But I would look at a fighter like Evander Holyfield. He's a great heavyweight who worked his way up through the weight classes to become champion and had to beat bigger men along the way.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Men, Class, Champion

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• I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.

  Rod Serling

  Done, Pieces, Honest

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I am the heavyweight champion of the world, and the greatest heavyweight you have seen for a long while. With Tyson on the card, it is definitely an added bonus because Lewis-Tyson on the same card would be a great doubleheader. This is what the fans want to see.

  Lennox Lewis

  Long, Champion, World

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

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• What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

  Rocky Marciano

  Cities, Knowing, Champion

  "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.

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• Many people who have been around boxing all those years never had a champion, certainly a heavyweight champion....For that to happen in one's lifetime is so improbable. I got Floyd Patterson, then, here, at the age of 76, I was fortunate to come in contact with this young man who has, in my opinion, all the requirements to be a champion that I believe he's going to be, maybe the best that ever lived.

  Cus D'Amato

  Believe, Men, Years

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• Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.

  Joe Frazier

  Garden, Long, Champion

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• David Haye is too light. Simply too light. He's not a real heavyweight.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Real, Light

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• They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight. Heavyweight title fights should be huge events, not an after-thought in a country most famous for producing Toblerones [chocolate].

  David Haye

  Country, Motivation, Fighting

  "David Haye questions Vitali Klitschko legacy". BBC Sport Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. December 9, 2009.

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• The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

  Joe Louis

  Champion, Progress, World

  Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

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• I want to bring excitement back to the heavyweight division.

  Deontay Wilder

  Division, Want, Excitement

  "Deontay Wilder decisions Stiverne" by Dan Rafael, abcnews.go.com. January 18, 2015.

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• You don't have to fight to be brave. Millions of good, fine, decent folks show more bravery than heavyweight champs just by getting out of bed every morning, going out to do a good day's work and living the best life they know how against the law of odds.

  John Wayne

  Morning, Good Day, Fighting

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• There is definitely a mood in the party for making sure that two cabinet heavyweights we have got, who come from different traditions, different sides of the EU referendum campaign, Theresa May and Michael Gove - it would be right to put them to the party in the country.

  Nicky Morgan

  Country, Party, Two

  "Brexit: Crabb and Fox out of Tory race after May wins first round of voting - As it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Claire Phipps and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2016.

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• Contrary to popular belief, I don't go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it'll be to something like a heavyweight fight, and I'll be photographed, so that people have this conception that I go out a lot.

  Rob Lowe

  Fighting, People, Belief

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• To move up to heavyweight to fight me is a jump too far, in my opinion.

  David Haye

  Moving, Fighting, Opinion

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I'm fast for a heavyweight.

  David Haye

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Oliver [McCall] has meant so much to my career and showed that in the heavyweight division, anything is possible.

  Anthony Joshua

  Careers, Division, Anything Is Possible

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• I think Frank Mir was 100 percent underestimated and I'm really happy to see the result because I think we needed it in the heavyweight division.

  Shawn Tompkins

  Thinking, Division, Results

  Source: fiveouncesofpain.com

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