Larry Holmes Quotes

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

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.

We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.

Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don’t back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.

The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.

One of the best ones out there was a guy named Howard Cosell. He was the best.