5,260 Quotes About Sports

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

I love the UFC. I love it. If they had had that back when I was coming up, in 1966, it would have been my sport. Man, I love it. And you know what? Nobody would have pulled the rope-a-dope on me.

The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.

Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.