Memorable Quotes From 2009

January 13th, 2010

Compiled by Scoop Malinowski

Leonard Ellerbe on Pacquiao vs. Mayweather in May: “Manny Pacquiao would never make more money than Floyd Mayweather if they ever faced off in a fight. I’m just giving you the facts. Floyd is the biggest star in all of boxing, period, end of discussion.”

Bob Arum on Oscar De La Hoya: “I think that there’s no real class fighters (Oscar) is capable of beating anymore. I think if he elected to fight and fought Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. he would have a good chance. Because Julio’s not a complete fighter. But I don’t think he would do that because this nonsense that if he beat Julio, the Mexcians will hate him. The Mexicans hate him anyway. Go to any arena, they’ll boo the shit out of him.”

Carl Froch on Jermain Taylor: “I didn’t see a man who looked really confident. He’s talking himself up and he’s trying to be a little flash, joke and laughing. I think that’s a sign of nerves. But I don’t look into the psychology too much of a fighter. You can underestimate a fighter if you do that, you really can. But I feel so confident in myself that I look past anything that he says or anything he does. But when I stood there and looked in his eyes, he didn’t look like a man that thought he was gonna be the new champion.”

Wladimir Klitschko: “David Haye will be punished. It’s embarrassing to represent himself like he represents himself, with the t-shirt and the picture on it. Which has to do nothing with sport. My plan is to knock him out in the 12th. And I will enjoy the process. The full 12 rounds. And I wish he will get up before. If he will go down, continue to fight. David Haye at the press conference after the fight is going to eat his words. He’s going to eat his t-shirt with the words.”

Lamon Brewster: “Here in America a lot of the heavyweights are lazy, they really are. The Europeans can fight for every second of every round. A lot of American fighters are lazy because there’s so much money to be made.”

Lennox Lewis on Manny Pacquiao: “Boxing needs a guy like Manny. He’s a boxer, a puncher, a mover, a champion in seven weight divisions. He doesn’t stand there and take shots. He throws that wicked jab and is so quick to dodge trouble. Pound for pound Manny Pacquiao is the best boxer in the world. Even more important than that, Manny Pacquiao has connected with the people of his home country the Philippines to the point where he’s almost like a God. The people have rallied behind him and feel like they’re part of him, because they can see his talent, his dedication, his grace and his class.”

Miguel Cotto: “I have a year and a half, two years as future in boxing.”

Floyd Mayweather: “I’d beat the shit out of Manny Pacquiao. And he knows that.”

Cotto on Mayweather: “That’s the thing he does for his whole career. He run from the really good boxer kind, he choose the others. I don’t know how the people who know about boxing put him in the first place in the pound for pound champion.”