A. J. Liebling Quotes

I get paid to get hit in the head.

From a young age, I was told boxing was not a career option. My dad told me there were other ways to make a living in sport without taking punches to the head. But eventually, curiosity got the better of me. I needed to find out what the big deal was.

I feel that my talent is in the ring.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

My objective is to destroy anybody over 200 pounds, in the ring or out.

A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em

I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

I heard that I am crazy for taking this fight but I'm very excited about this chance. His manager is saying that I'm a 'dead man walking' but 'dead men' cannot have 'nightmares'.

I live for the moment to hit people.

I've been knocked out a few times , but I have no idea how many concussions I've ever had.

He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to get chaotic or crazy.

I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

Tyson is a lot better than I thought, a lot better. People can talk about Spinks all they want... Tyson is the true champion.

Unfortunately, I've been fighting injuries recently more than facing rivals in the ring.

It is incredibly difficult to adjust to such a little fighter. Mormeck is similar to Mike Tyson, he is just a little still faster.

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

I think that boxing is actually not as dangerous as the politics. In boxing, you're gonna get a bloody nose or a black eye. In politics you can obviously get either dioxin in the food or bullet in the head.

Kill the body and the head will die.

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

He was screaming like my wife.

I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.

Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head

I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.