Boxing Funny Sporting Quotes

Here is my top 10 list of favorite funny sporting quotes from the sport of Boxing. There are more too.

"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton." Dan Duva, Boxing promoter, on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King
The three toughest fighters I've ever been up against were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic! Jake LaMotta
"The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters." George Foreman
"Sure there have been injuries and even some deaths in boxing - but none of them really that serious." Alan Minter
"I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost." Frank Bruno on his win against Oliver McCall
"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." Jack Dempsey
"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book." Joe Frazier
"When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing." Don King
"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is." Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota
"I'm going to eat his children." Mike Tyson to Lennox Lewis before their fight. Lewis replied by telling the media that he did not have any children.

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