"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."

Alan Minter

"I Fought Sugar So Many Times, I'm Surprised I'm Not Diabetic."

Jack LaMotta

"I'll hit him so hard he'll get nicked for speeding."

Nigel Benn (on being offered a fight vs Gary Stretch)

"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.

Quotes from the ages

"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

"What ever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1. "

Tyson Fury