Quotes About Sonny Liston

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Muhammad Ali

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. My natural hair is short and naturally grows to frame my face. So that's my favorite. I also like tree-braids. They're easy, fast, there's not much pulling on your hair, and they are very lightweight.

Erica Ash

#8. Difficult situations breed astonishing results.

Jeffrey Veen

#9. It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

Victor Hugo

#10. My goal is to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games, and I'll fight and continue going until I do that.

Troy Dumais

#11. I'm letting the devil prick me with his horns and I'm enjoying every minute of it. The secrets are out of the bag and Turner knows everything now. He's one of a few people on this planet I can be completely and fully honest with. From hated enemy to trusted friend. The fuck is wrong with me?

C.M. Stunich

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

Sonny Liston

#13. Everyone is allowed to have their own boundaries. You just are. No matter how you dress, no matter what you say or anything, and I feel strongly about that.

Amy Schumer

#14. I'd learned to feel nostalgia for my own youth while I was living it.

Edmund White

#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. Maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.

Ally Carter

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

Sonny Liston

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

Sonny Liston

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

Sonny Liston

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

Sonny Liston

#22. Fridrik sat many a night by a smoking lamp, translating into Danish descriptions of the latest methods of keeping us poor humans alive, while on pallets around him lay the corpses, beyond any aid, despite the encouraging news of advances in electrical cures.

Sjon

#23. 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

#24. Matisse renovates rather than innovates.

Guillaume Apollinaire