Heavyweight Champion Quotes

#1. Not only will I beat you tonight ... I'll beat you this Sunday and become World Heavyweight Champion!

Oscar Gutierrez

#2. I have never seen a heavyweight champion apologize for a knockout

Jock J. Davis

#3. What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

Rocky Marciano

#4. When people are tipsy, they're really encouraged and they wanna prove they can do something to the Heavyweight champion.

Wladimir Klitschko

#5. 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.

Steve Sabol

#6. 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.

Joe Frazier

#7. I set out in the beginning to be the heavyweight champion of the world. From a very young age, I was going to be the heavyweight champion of the world. Nothing else was a problem to me. That's what I'll finish doing.

Tyson Fury

#8. 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.

Tyson Fury

#9. Mike Tyson is the most complex person I've ever met in my life. I've known Mike since 1986. We're both from Brooklyn. I didn't know him growing up, but once he became heavyweight champion, I knew him then.

Spike Lee

#10. Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been ... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

Teddy Atlas

#11. There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me.

Tyson Fury

#12. Wilder is not a big draw in the U.S. He maybe sells 5,000 to 10,000 tickets when he's fighting in his own town for the heavyweight champion.

Tyson Fury

#13. I am the heavyweight champion of the world, and the greatest heavyweight you have seen for a long while. With Tyson on the card, it is definitely an added bonus because Lewis-Tyson on the same card would be a great doubleheader. This is what the fans want to see.

Lennox Lewis

#14. For me, I believe George Foreman was a bad example because when he became world heavyweight champion again at 42, that made a lot of fighters think they could also carry on.

Marvin Hagler

#15. I'm really excited about my future plans, as I'm doing things differently and currently training like a Trojan in pursuit of becoming heavyweight champion of the world.

Tyson Fury

#16. I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

Floyd Patterson

#17. What the Hell. In 1988, I was the AWA heavyweight champion and I never came to Milwaukee.

Jerry Lawler

#18. I'm the world heavyweight champion. I consider myself a citizen of the whole world.

George Foreman

#19. 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.

Gene Tunney

#20. When I look at the 'Rocky Balboa' film when I played the undisputed heavyweight champion, I feel like art is going to imitate life. I played the champ in a movie and I'm going to become the champ in reality.

Antonio Tarver

#21. That Mitt Romney, he is a master campaigner. This week he was introducing his wife, and he said, 'She is the heavyweight champion of my life. Which may explain why on the ride home, he was strapped to the roof of the car.

Bill Maher

#22. Mitt Romney, two-time Republican presidential hopeful, boxed former heavyweight champion of the world Evander Holyfield for charity. It was a horrible moment when Romney bit off Holyfield's other ear.

David Letterman

#23. I don't need a belt to make me. I make the belt. I feel great and that's all that matters. I'm still heavyweight champion of the world.

James Toney

#24. Mitt Romney announced he will fight former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in a charity boxing match. You can tell that Romney is serious about it. Today, his butler gave him a piggyback ride up the steps of the Philadelphia art museum.

Jimmy Fallon

#25. Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.

Joe Frazier

#26. The Youngest World Heavyweight Champion in History!

Randy Orton

#27. I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

Henry Rollins

#28. In 1973 I became heavyweight champion of the world with 38 victories, no defeats as a professional. You get to a point where you think you cannot lose. I felt like I had the greatest power with my fists, I was the strongest man in the world.

George Foreman

#29. 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.

H.L. Mencken

#30. The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

George Foreman

#31. The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.

Lennox Lewis

#32. It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman

Muhammad Ali

#33. You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

Muhammad Ali

#34. Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and all those guys. Because they were older than me and I was doing my thing.

Larry Holmes

#35. Hemingway and Norman Mailer might have disagreed, but there is no heavyweight champion of literature.

Tom Robbins

#36. My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.

Evander Holyfield

#37. No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.

Tommy Gibbons

#38. It's not my place to compare myself to greats like Tyson, Frazier or men like that. But I would look at a fighter like Evander Holyfield. He's a great heavyweight who worked his way up through the weight classes to become champion and had to beat bigger men along the way.

Wladimir Klitschko

#39. MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

Nelson Mandela

#40. I'm going to give the people their money's worth ... true sports entertainment for their dollar. I'm the undefeated IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion making my fifth title defense. The crowd will be with me because everybody wants to be with a winner.

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