Liston Quotes

#1. I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.

Muhammad Ali

#2. Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

George Foreman

#3. Liston is like most big bullies, if you can stay away and make him miss for a few rounds he'll get frustrated. Once you strip away that feeling of invincibility, he can be had.

Rocky Marciano

#4. My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever, Sonny Liston would go and knock guys out, and that made it all right.

August Wilson

#5. Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.

Muhammad Ali

#6. When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock

Muhammad Ali

#7. If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

Muhammad Ali

#8. Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

Muhammad Ali

#9. Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#10. Harvest is more abundant on untilled land.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real mean. I like reading bad stuff, it gets me excited. In fact, the only reviews I keep are the bad ones 'cause I think they're the cool ones.

Patti Smith

#12. It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

Susie Bright

#13. Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

Sonny Liston

#14. As much as I enjoy TV, I've always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific - you're talking all the time.

Marv Albert

#15. It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10

Sonny Liston

#16. If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

Sonny Liston

#17. If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it.

Rachel Bloom

#18. Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#19. Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.

Sonny Liston

#20. The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

Sonny Liston

#21. Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

Sonny Liston

#23. How would you like to find out how good my right is?

Sonny Liston

#24. Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a
profound power to help build our nation

Nelson Mandela

#25. A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

Sonny Liston