“Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.” — Jack Dempsey

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.