Angelo Dundee famous quotes

03-28-2025

Training fighters is like trying to catch a fish. It's technique, not strength.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Training #Trying #Technique
Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Boxing #Giving #Fighter
Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Winning #Lockers #Rooms
You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it!
-- Angelo Dundee

#Son #Boxing
It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Boxing #Forever #Muhammad
It doesn't cost anything more to be nice.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Nice #Cost #Being Nice
Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Boxing #Guy #Tanks
Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!
-- Angelo Dundee

#Encouragement #Criticism #Okay
You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Boxing #Giving #Guy
There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .
-- Angelo Dundee

#Thinking #Negative #Cost
In all my years in boxing I'd never known such heat
-- Angelo Dundee

#Years #Boxing #Heat
This kid deserves anything good that happens to him. He's such a good guy. He's just the nicest human being you want to meet.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Kids #Boxing #Guy
I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Boxing #Reflexes
The match would have to be made at 165 pounds. Sean can't make 160 any more, even though he's drinking lite beer these days
-- Angelo Dundee

#Drinking #Beer #Boxing
The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep
-- Angelo Dundee

#Boxing #Pep
Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Boxing #Earth #Way
Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Boxing #Fighter #Muhammad
When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Boxing #Guy #Looks
I never knew about a lot of the outside things
-- Angelo Dundee

#Boxing
You're talkin' legit here.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Boxing #Legit
He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Boxing #Way #Beats
I loved the movie for the simple reason that I saw the scenes and I saw Muhammad working with these guys.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Simple #Boxing #Guy
My kid could move like a lightweight
-- Angelo Dundee

#Moving #Kids #Boxing
Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Boxing #Looks #Muhammad
What's his name? I tried to forget him because if he would have fought like he worked with my guy he would have knocked the guy out.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Names #Boxing #Guy

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