Larry Holmes Quotes

When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow.

In the future, I want to have super-fights.

Kirkland and Khan are chinny fighters. I am not like that.

If you ask my promoters and managers, they will say I've never knocked back an opponent in my life.

People want to see me fight all sorts of people out there.

You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier

I've noticed since I've been out is Eddie Hearn and this fight gives me an opportunity to shut him up.

I love the fight game. I like the brutality. I like the mentality. I like the aggressiveness, but I like the technique and skill. I like the stakes. I like the people around in the gym. I like the everyday, working class feel of a boxing gym.

Maccarinelli thinks he can use me to make a name for himself, but that is not going to happen. He has made his fame by fighting nobodies. I've fought all the way to the top against top contenders.

People think I hate Billy Martin. I don't. I hate some of the things he did. And I will say I don't understand him. Billy Martin is not an intellectual, but there is a cunningness to him that is something to behold.

If you want to watch two guys knock hell out of each other, watch us.

Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

Everyone still wants to see [Floyd] Mayweather and [Manny] Pacquaio fight. When the talks start though, it always seem like it is all about Mayweather, and I think the people hate that.

It's easy to talk, it's harder to fight.

Leading up to the fight [Trevor Berbick] took every opportunity he could to badmouth Larry Holmes and I just blew up. After I beat him in the ring, he tried to get me going again, saying he deserved another fight, wasn't happening.

The thing that I come across is that people think that I might actually be super aggressive, want-to-fight type in real life. The irony is that that's just not true, at all.

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.

I am very happy that Floyd Mayweather and I can give the fans the fight they have wanted for so many years.

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

Kenny Norton hit me so hard that it still hurts. Now there was a case of two fighters who did not like each other.

Fang and I are always fighting. When we get up in the morning, we don't kiss; we touch gloves.

Nobody can beat the Klitschko brothers. That's why it's boring.

Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me

When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.