Larry Merchant Quotes

#1. No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.

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#2. I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a great fighter, came to such an ignominious end.

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#3. The Super Bowl is like Christmas shopping at Macy's for bookies.

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#4. Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

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#5. There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.

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#6. The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.

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#7. If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass

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#8. Nothing will kill boxing, and nothing can save it.

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#9. Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.

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#10. Jameel McCline acts as if attacking Wladimir Klitschko is akin to attacking Russia during winter

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#11. This fight figures to be crunk

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#12. Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?

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#13. Vitali Klitschko doesn't get enough credit for how intelligent he fights, because he knows when to throw at the target and when to throw through the target.

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#14. It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention.

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#15. Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

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#16. To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.

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#17. Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.

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#18. Just because you BEAT Michael Jordan doesn't mean you BECOME Michael Jordan.

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