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 | | More Famous Boxing Quotes- Joe Louis: "We're going to do our part and we'll win because we're on God's side."
- Joe Louis: "Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
- Joe Louis: "I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves."
- Joe Louis: "I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title."
- Joe Louis: "Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good."
- Joe Louis: "He can run, but he can't hide."
- Joe Louis: "Every man's got to figure out how to get beat sometime."
- Joe Louis: "I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money."
- Joe Louis: "Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten"
- George Foreman: "There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer."
- Max Baer: "He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."
- Joe Frazier: "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."
- Muhammad Ali: "I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest."
- Mike Tyson: "When you’re a great finisher, you’ll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher."
- Angelo Dundee: "Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way."
- Joe Louis: "It hurt to even bump into him."
- Joe Louis: "Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?"
- Max Baer: "It's no joke, pal. People die in fairy tales all the time. "
- Jim Braddock: "I have to believe that when things are bad I can change them."
- Tyson in his prime vs. Ali in his prime? I'll take Ali anyday. Half of the reason Tyson ever won is because he scared his opponents to death before they even got in the ring. Ali wasn't afraid of anyone so Tyson's "magic" wouldn't have worked on him.
- Jimmy Cannon: "Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race."
- Tyson's a little pansy now. He couldn't even make it past the, what was it, the 4th round in his last fight?
- Bob Fitzsimmons: "The bigger they are, the harder they fall."
- Ali could beat him today, even with the Parkinson's.
- Taff Corbett: "If I fought Evander with a baseball bat, I would win the fight, but it would be by decision."
- Brian London, answering if he would fight Ali again: "Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg."
- Willie Pep: "I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set -- and they're both working."
- Here is a conversation between George Foreman and Bob Arum in 1995, Foreman: "Bob, I can't chase these guys anymore." Arum's reply: "George, I cant put it in the contract.
| - Randall "Tex" Cobb: "If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass."
- Bob Hope: "I was called "Rembrandt" Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas."
- Bob Arum, after his fighter, Iran Barkley, beat Darrian Van Horn: "If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part
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