Sonny Liston Quotes

The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.

This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

This is boxing, everybody fights everybody.

Fans want to see a fight and be entertained.

Hurd puts on entertaining fights, I put on entertaining fights. Let's bang it out, let's rumble.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

In boxing, everybody has their favorites.

The bad guys are the best parts.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.

Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

Everyone wants to see collisions, so I'm ready to give some.

Of course, we would love to fight Floyd.

It would be an honour to knock out Botha.

I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.

Boxing fascinates me.

Where there is a hero, there is always a villain.

As an amateur, there are three rounds, and you have to give it all you have, throw as many punches as you can.

I guess there's a showmanship in fighting.

This is what boxing always needs - two young, undefeated fighters willing to risk their '0.'