Angelo Dundee Quotations

I think I would have to go so far as to say Russell is Jim Braddock. I'm amazed the way Russell picked up his mannerisms, his smoothness, the legs, the way he slides, that slip, slide, block, slide, jab - boom! Like Jim, he has just about the greatest left hook I've ever seen. He's got the speed, the rhythm, the determination and especially the will. Best of all, he has learned to think like a fighter. One thing about Braddock is that he was a smart fighter, and Russell uses his noodle just like Braddock did. I do think if he wasn't an actor, Russell could have been a great fighter.

Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him.

George Foreman can knock down an oak tree ... but oak trees don't move.

Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined.

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.

I loved the movie for the simple reason that I saw the scenes and I saw Muhammad working with these guys.

You're talkin' legit here.

My kid could move like a lightweight

You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem.

I never knew about a lot of the outside things

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

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.

In all my years in boxing I'd never known such heat

It doesn't cost anything more to be nice.

He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him.

Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!

I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.

The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep

Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.

You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it!

When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.

Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .

Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.

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.

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

Right now, there's nobody out there to turn people on, ... This is the disease of Muhammad Ali ... With Muhammad, every time he did something, it was excitement. It's excitement now, when the guy comes around, walking around with Parkinson's. It's unfair to try to compare anybody to this kid.

It will be like cutting the hair off a Goliath,