Heavyweight Quotes

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? (Rocky Marciano)
"Undisputed heavyweight champion." Well, if it's undisputed, what's all the fighting about? View quote
George Carlin
I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world. View quote
Larry Holmes
Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs. View quote
Larry Holmes
Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian. View quote
H. L. Mencken
One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible. View quote
Mike Tyson
I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history. View quote
Floyd Patterson
When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight. View quote
Michael Bolton
I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is. View quote
Will McDonough
The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman (David Cameron) may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist. View quote
Gordon Brown
Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Sonny Liston's not coming out! Sonny Liston's not coming out! He's out! The winner and new heavyweight champion of the world is Cassius Clay! (Howard Cosell)
I've been many times to Dubai and the U.A.E., and I have friends that live there. It would be exciting to stage world heavyweight championship fights in the Arab world. It's something Muhammad Ali achieved when he fought in Zaire or the Philippines. It's absolutely exciting to fight in countries where you have never fought. View quote
Wladimir Klitschko
The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion. View quote
George Foreman
Lennox is right up there with George Foreman and Muhammad Ali and he has proved himself the best heavyweight out there. View quote
Lennox Lewis
Lennox is beyond doubt the greatest heavyweight of all-time. He is not second any more, he is there at the top of the tree. It reminded me of a young George Foreman and an elusive Muhammad Ali - everything you want in a fighter. View quote
Lennox Lewis
He should've been the only heavyweight anybody ever thought of when they thought about the greatest heavyweight champion. I mean he had everything. He could punch, he could box. He was mean and determined. View quote
Jack Dempsey
"He's not just trying to hurt the man - he's out to end his career!" (usually said when a heavyweight or superheavyweight is destroying his opponent) View quote
Jim Ross
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. View quote
Gene Tunney
The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant. View quote
Edward St Aubyn
One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years. View quote
Bonnie Raitt
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' (James Wolcott)
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. View quote
Steve Sabol
Boxing is a dying sport, really. Years ago, the world heavyweight champion could be said to have reached the highest pinnacle of sport. Even in this country, boxers were heroes. Think of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno. View quote
Tyson Fury
There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me. View quote
Tyson Fury
Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes. View quote
Tyson Fury