SLOGANS & BOXING MC-NUGGETTS FROM PAST 200 YEARS
Liberty, NC– More wisdom gleaned by keeping my mouth (more or less) shut and my eye’s and ear’s open!
* “If we don’t win a fight, it’s just because we can’t,” Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach
* “Boxing is a science. You don’t just walk into a gym and start punching. Fighters are born with differences in physical ability, but you also a See big difference in their skills. That’s the trainers influence at work,” the late, great Eddie Futch
* “Do you want me to fight? Huh? Do you want me to trade places with you? Do you? Listen, this guy (Evander Holyfield) is finished! There comes a time in a man’s life when he makes a decision–to just live. Survive. Or, he wants to win! You’re doing just enough to keep him off you, and hope he leaves you alone. You’re lying to yourself. You’re gonna cry tomorrow because of this! Do you want to cry tomorrow? Huh? Don’t lie to yourself. Back this guy up and fight a full round…” Teddy Atlas to Michael Moorer when facing Evander Holyfield for the heavyweight championship of the world.
* “Move your head after you punch. Control your emotions. These are the two great laws of boxing.” Cus D’Amato.
* “A trainer can teach a guy how to fight, but a trainer cannot give a guy heart,” trainer Lou Kemp.
* “I really think diet has a lot to do with how fighters develop. Puerto Rican and Mexican fighters, most of them are brawlers and good punchers. You know why? Beans and rice and tortillas, that’s why. They eat food that’s strictly from the earth. Beans, rice, flour,corn.” Trainer George Benton, from “In The Corner” by Dave Anderson.
* “Heavyweights don’t have to be no great big man. All a heavyweight’s got to be is over 200 pounds. Any guy that weighs 210 is big enough. Joe Louis, on his best day, he was 205, and he was knocking out giants. Look at Rocky Marciano, he was just under 190 in all his title fights. Floyd Patterson never got to 200, but he had that hand speed. He’d hit you bing, bing, bing, you’d never see his punches coming,” more from George Benton
* “I can lick any son-of-a-bitch in the house.” John L. Sullivan, in any number of Pub’s and Saloons
SIGNS POSTED IN BOXING GYMS
* “When in doubt, jab out”
* “Train until it hurts and then some”
* “Head down, hands up”
* “Remember the key word is work”
* “I can only be beaten two ways, if I die or if I quit”
* “Boxing is not really boxing today, it’s theater. Some kids might look good, but they don’t learn their trade. They’re not polished. If you take a piece of gold out , you know it’s gold. But you have to clean it…you have to polish it…you have to give it a form. But there aren’t many guys capable of polishing a fighter…” Ray Arcel
* “Now whoever has courage, and a strong and collected spirit in his breast, let him come forward, lace on the gloves and put up his hands.” Sign in Gleason’s Gym.
Professor Chuck Marbry