Bert Sugar Quotes

They gave him a steak the night before the bout and said they had prepared that one especially for him. I definitely think it had been spiked with something. He had landed the 'thunder and lightning', but to no avail...Ingo was a very good boxer, but I won't fib, he wasn't great. - Bert Sugar

There's a lot of money to be made by somebody, but I don't know who that somebody would be. - Bert Sugar

The heavyweight division is on the cusp of being called off for lack of interest... A hundred years ago boxing was one of the top three sports in the country. Now it's charitably twelfth on the list of top 10 sports. Therein lies its biggest problem. People have so many things to consider in the world of sports that it takes a major fighter to capture their attention. - Bert Sugar

It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man? - Bert Sugar

It was an event, not a fight. Hubert H. Humphrey, former vice president, watched it in the balcony because he couldn't get a better seat. It was a great fight, not as great as the third one in Manila. But the event transcended that. When the fighters entered, you couldn't hear the announcers. I've never heard or seen anything like it again. - Bert Sugar

It is a terrible division. - Bert Sugar

If Rahman walked down street in his gloves and boxing trunks, they'd have a problem recognizing him. - Bert Sugar

He had landed the 'thunder and lightning', but to no avail...Ingo was a very good boxer, but I won't fib, he wasn't great. - Bert Sugar

Greg Page ... was one of the greatest amateurs I ever saw, and that's 40 years of watching. But I put to you: He never fully, I think, achieved his potential. - Bert Sugar

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