Heavyweight Quotes

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

Teddy Atlas

#2. 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

#3. You don't have to fight to be brave. Millions of good, fine, decent folks show more bravery than heavyweight champs just by getting out of bed every morning, going out to do a good day's work and living the best life they know how against the law of odds.

John Wayne

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Oscar Gutierrez

#7. They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight. Heavyweight title fights should be huge events, not an afterthought in a country most famous for producing chocolate.

David Haye

#8. 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

#9. I'm always telling Don King's people when there's a top-10 heavyweight they've got that needs an opponent, I'm ready.

Mark De Mori

#10. [Tyson] Fury is big and [Wladimir] Klitschko's not used to fighting someone his size. If Fury can stop Klitschko grabbing and avoid that big right hand, he's got a chance. In the heavyweight division, it only takes one punch.

Joe Calzaghe

#11. Do you know why I'm the fastest heavyweight in the world? I'm the only heavyweight that trains underwater!

Muhammad Ali

#12. In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it.

Wladimir Klitschko

#13. I was a big light heavyweight but I feel perfect at heavyweight. When I look back at some of my old fights, I was really just a shell of myself. Now I'm healthy and strong and ready to get to the top.

Antonio Tarver

#14. Today the biggest decisions I make aren't related to the heavyweight title. They are whether I visit McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, or Jack-in-the-Box.

George Foreman

#15. Chocolate Kinder from Germany. My wife is from Germany and once I tasted them I was scared I would have to fight at heavyweight.

Erislandy Lara

#16. 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.

Edward St. Aubyn

#17. If you learn to sell, it's worth more than a degree. It's worth more than the heavyweight championship of the world. It's even more important than having a million dollars in the bank. Learn to sell, and you'll never starve.

George Foreman

#18. 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.

Will McDonough

#19. 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

#20. Women are heavyweight boxers; only, they punch with words, not fists.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. 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

#22. 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.

Tyson Fury

#23. My ego thinks I would like to be considered for more heavyweight roles, but the price you pay for that is they are always the same kind of roles.

Steffan Rhodri

#24. The unprecedented 3rd Heavyweight Championship Title won by Muhammad Ali, his final victory, will stand as one of the greatest human achievements in all of sporting history".

Paul Leo Faso

#25. If I'm watching my favorite boxer, and he's just won the heavyweight championship of the world, and he retires, it kind of makes the guy a legend.

Nikki Sixx

#26. Every fight is do or die for me. I've come too far to start over. I'm on a destiny trip right now. I'm racing towards that heavyweight world championship.

Antonio Tarver

#27. Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.

Alexander McCall Smith

#28. 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

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

George Foreman

#30. 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.

Tavoris Cloud

#31. I am the great test! a blackened shadow-boxing colossus jabjabbered, pounding his gloves against the wall. The heavyweight will be quillweight. Bantamweight, even. Ain't nobody can dethrone me, beyond my ken! he boasted,* sidling up to his shadow.


*Mad Ali?:

Julian Rios

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

Jerry Lawler

#33. I think a fight with David Haye, even if he is not American, is going to give positive vibes about the heavyweight division for the American fans and fans worldwide.

Wladimir Klitschko

#34. 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

#35. I want to bring excitement back to the heavyweight division,

Deontay Wilder

#36. The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous ... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

Eric S. Raymond

#37. 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.

Gordon Brown

#38. What a leveller this remote-control gizmo was ... it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until all the set's emissions, commercials, murders, game-shows, the thousand and one varying joys and terrors of the real and the imagined, acquired an equal weight ...

Salman Rushdie

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

Floyd Patterson

#40. 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

#41. David Haye is too light. Simply too light. He's not a real heavyweight.

Vitali Klitschko

#42. I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.

Rod Serling

#43. I'm lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the credibility of the fans and media, and that's what counts. That's why I am taking this risk, but I am taking it by preparing myself with good people.

Bernard Hopkins

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Henry Rollins

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

Muhammad Ali

#47. A lot of heavyweights, with the exception of a few Eastern Europe fighters, they really look like being a heavyweight is just like, who can eat the most Pizza Hut and McDonalds.

Randy Johnson

#48. 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

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

George Foreman

#50. After I knock out Randy Couture, I'll fight for the heavyweight title, the real heavyweight boxing title in October or November, come back and fight in the UFC in January or February. It doesn't matter, I'm a two sport athlete. The oldest man to ever do that.

James Toney

#51. I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

Muhammad Ali

#52. My brother is a professional boxer. Heavyweight? No, featherweight. He tickles his opponents to death!

Various

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound ... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.

Muhammad Ali

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

Muhammad Ali

#57. The Youngest World Heavyweight Champion in History!

Randy Orton

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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.

Bonnie Raitt

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. You don't know what it is to be heavyweight champ of the world until you become the heavyweight champ of the world.

George Foreman

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

Tyson Fury

#65. You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.

George Foreman

#66. Actually, I was lucky enough; I was a heavyweight, so making weight for me was never that much of a problem in high school. Now, it would just be near impossible, because I'm a little heavier.

Alex Mack

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

Rocky Marciano

#68. I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.

Muhammad Ali

#69. 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

#70. I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

Vin Diesel

#71. When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

Michael Bolton

#72. I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

Lennox Lewis

#73. I don't care that no one has successfully defended the (light heavyweight) title. I care about preparation, training and getting inside the cage to fight.

Rafael Cavalcante

#74. 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

#75. No expert can predict the heavyweight division. Every punch can make the decision.

Vitali Klitschko

#76. 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

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

Wladimir Klitschko

#78. 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

#79. I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

Muhammad Ali

#80. Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, and the next heavyweight championship of the world!

Scott Steiner

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

Jock J. Davis

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. Once you get the nod, your mentality totally changes. It's like a heavyweight fighter-you win the title and that's it, you don't want to look back and you don't want to change. That's the way I feel and I'm looking to keep the job.?

Mark Sanchez

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

Evander Holyfield

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

Tom Robbins

#87. 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