Top 54 Quotes About Joe Louis
#1. Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.
Angelo Dundee
#2. I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
Max Baer
#3. I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine from around the country - New Orleans Jazz to Indian flute players, R&B, you name it. I met and became good friends with (blues guitar player) Joe Louis Walker. He was on the show.
Scotty Moore
#4. I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
Larry Holmes
#5. Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.
Walter Mosley
#6. Joe Louis once said, "Every fighter has a plan until they get hit.
Thomas J. Dorsey
#7. I done the best I could with what I had -- Joe Louis
Joe Louis
#9. There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.
George Foreman
#10. 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
#11. Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.
Jimmy Cannon
#12. Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black ... But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under.
Jesse Owens
#13. Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen ... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.
Max Schmeling
#14. 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
#15. Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.
Tommy Farr
#16. I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you.
Bill Laimbeer
#17. It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.
Angelo Dundee
#18. I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali
#19. When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.
Mike Tyson
#20. I do believe he's the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he's one of the greatest men I've ever met.
George Foreman
#21. Joe Louis was one of my closest friends ... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside.
Mickey Rooney
#22. I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic.
Rocky Graziano
#23. I don't like money very much, but it calms my nerves.
Joe Louis
#24. Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.
Joe Louis
#25. Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.
Joe Louis
#26. I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.
Joe Louis
#27. Shut up!" Joe's tone was ugly. "If you ain't willing to try, you can go to hell.
Louis L'Amour
#28. One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead characters in many '70s and '80s films, has a moral ambiguity to him.
Joe Cornish
#29. You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.
Joe Louis
#30. Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.
Joe Louis
#31. If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody.
Joe Louis
#32. A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His "becoming" happens during his daily routine.
Joe Louis
#33. Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them.
Joe Louis
#34. Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?
Joe Louis
#35. He can run, but he can't hide.
Joe Louis
#36. Everyone has a plan until they've been hit.
Joe Louis
#37. I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.
Joe Louis
#38. There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.
Joe Louis
#39. I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.
Joe Louis
#40. It hurt to even bump into him.
Joe Louis
#41. When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
Joe Louis
#42. It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'
Joe Haldeman
#43. The whole damned country was depending on me.
Joe Louis
#44. We're going to do our part and we'll win because we're on God's side.
Joe Louis
#45. Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten
Joe Louis
#46. Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
Joe Louis
#47. Joe has sense enough to know
He is a god.
So many gods don't know.
Langston Hughes
#48. You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.
Joe Louis
#49. St. Louis has always been special to me.
Joe Torre
#50. Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.
Joe Louis
#51. When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.
Joe Posnanski
#52. I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves.
Joe Louis
#53. Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.
Joe Louis
#54. Every man's got to figure out how to get beat sometime.
Joe Louis
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