Quote

Everyone still wants to see [Floyd] Mayweather and [Manny] Pacquaio fight. When the talks start though, it always seem like it is all about Mayweather, and I think the people hate that.

Larry Holmes

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Larry Holmes
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 3
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Cuthbert
Georgia
Like
Everyone
Floyd
People
Hate
Talks
Stills
Seem
Seems
Fight
Still
Wants
Always
Start
Think
Though
Thinking
Fighting

More quotes by Larry Holmes

Image
Mike Tyson always had a big heart, but one of his problems is that he's short. And he's got kind of a personal attitude. But that don't make him a great fighter.
Larry Holmes
Image
It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
Larry Holmes
Image
This is the lying thieving mother who cut me $500,000.
Larry Holmes
Image
Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.
Larry Holmes
Image
Don King ain't a bad guy. He cut my earnings, but I don't hold any hard feelings toward him.
Larry Holmes
Image
I'm not a guy who counts cards. I'm a guy that plays with feeling. Because I feel that if something is going to come up, it comes up if it doesn't, it doesn't. And a lot of people get pissed at me because that's the way I play but that's the way I learned to play - with my feelings.
Larry Holmes
Image
Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.
Larry Holmes
Image
I don't like Larry Merchant. He thinks he knows everything about a sport that he was never in. He walks around with papers and studies what he writes, he just pisses you off.
Larry Holmes
Image
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.
Larry Holmes
Image
I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.
Larry Holmes
Image
All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps
Larry Holmes
Image
I think the world is changing. And it's changing so fast that people have to change with it.
Larry Holmes
Image
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.
Larry Holmes
Image
There is no quit in me.
Larry Holmes
Image
I think a lot of people like to gamble, and they don't want to go to the casino to gamble. Sometimes they want to do it in the privacy of their home. They can't concentrate the way they want to in a gambling casino.
Larry Holmes
Image
I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world.
Larry Holmes
Image
I don't know if I have any regrets, I have had a pretty successful life. I have learned good, bad, and ugly.
Larry Holmes
Image
Leading up to the fight [Trevor Berbick] took every opportunity he could to badmouth Larry Holmes and I just blew up. After I beat him in the ring, he tried to get me going again, saying he deserved another fight, wasn't happening.
Larry Holmes
Image
Oliver McCall was someone who I never really got to know too well, and he had some well-publicized problems.
Larry Holmes
Image
I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.
Larry Holmes