82 Quotes by Larry Holmes

If you don’t follow Don King, you get stepped on.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.

You can’t put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today’s class of fighters.

I didn’t fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought th fight for the people. We’re all God’s children. I don’t see color. I’m not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.

I came from a dirt farm, now I’m filthy rich.

When Don King’s fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses.

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.

With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn’t give me that fight.

People think that I reached the top overnight; well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really made it. I’ve had my jaws and hands broken. One arm is out of place. I’ve paid my dues in this business.