Quotes by Larry Holmes

Larry Holmes

[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.

Budweiser

Drinking

Too Much

Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you’d be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

Discipline

Men

Sweet

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps

Boxing

Fighter

Pimp

Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don’t have a problem.

Bob

Guy

Kings

Boxing is already stable, as far as the opportunity to fight, opportunity for fighters to step inside the ring and make some money – I think that’s OK, that’s fairly legit. I just think fighters need to be represented when it comes down to making sure the “i” is dotted and the “t” is crossed.

Fighting

Opportunity

Thinking

Don King ain’t a bad guy. He cut my earnings, but I don’t hold any hard feelings toward him.

Cutting

Guy

Kings

Don King doesn’t care about black or white. He just cares about green.

Boxing

Kings

White

Don King is a hip exploiter, an intelligent flesh peddler

Boxing

Intelligent

Kings

Don King was good to me through my years as champion, but I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him. He’s a wheeler dealer and you’ve got to be careful. He’s a great con artist.

Artist

Kings

Years

Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.

Faces

Fighter

Hearing

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Actions Speak Louder

Agriculture

Appearance

Artist

Attitude

Beats

Bells

Black

Blood

Bob

Body

Boxers

Boxing

Brother

Budweiser

Careers

Cells

Champion

Children

Class

Commitment

Cutting

Dad

Differences

Dirt

Discipline

Distance

Division

Doctors

Dollars

Dream

Drinking

Ducks

Earth

Eight

Enjoy

Etc

Faces

Fans

Fighter

Fighting

Fishing

Floyd Mayweather

Fun

Gambling

Games

Giving

Goal

Grease

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Quotes by Larry Holmes

Larry Holmes

[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.

Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you’d be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps

Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don’t have a problem.

Don King ain’t a bad guy. He cut my earnings, but I don’t hold any hard feelings toward him.

Don King doesn’t care about black or white. He just cares about green.

Don King is a hip exploiter, an intelligent flesh peddler

Don King was good to me through my years as champion, but I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him. He’s a wheeler dealer and you’ve got to be careful. He’s a great con artist.

Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.

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