Frases de Larry Holmes

Larry Holmes es un ex campeón mundial de boxeo en la categoría pesado. Aunque nacido en Georgia, Holmes ha pasado la mayor parte de su vida en Easton, Pennsylvania, lo que dio origen a su apodo de "El asesino de Easton". La International Boxing Research Organization lo ha clasificado entre los 10 mejores pesos pesados de la historia.[2]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 3. noviembre 1949
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Larry Holmes: Frases en inglés

“When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.”

After the Cooney fight, as quoted in "Sport: Larry Holmes: I Still Have It" by Tom Callahan in TIME (21 June 1982) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925485-3,00.html.

“If you want to get technical about it, Rocky couldn't carry my jockstrap.”

Comparing himself to Rocky Marciano http://www.antekprizering.com/holmesspinksneimanprint.html.

“It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.”

On beating Gerry Cooney, billed as "the great white hope" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070630/ap_on_sp_bo_ne/box_tim_dahlberg063007

“Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.”

On former champion Joe Lewis http://www.doghouseboxing.com/Ed_Ludwig/Larry_Holmes_011504.htm.

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