Ferdie Pacheco Quotations

We had been told Joe Frazier was not only hurt, but broke,

He is badly beaten up. It took 24 hours for his brain to recuperate and for his thought processes to announce it was the closest to death he knew of.

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Almost all ring deaths are preventable. When a guy starts to take a beating, stop the fight. Put it on a scale and tell me which is more important: a thrilling, gruesome fight or a person's life?

It was at the very top, the tip top of a slow murder. Do you think after the beating he took that day in Manila he went home happy and had chocolate ice cream? He goddamn near died. It's the reason he's a shambling, neurological wreck.

It's disastrous, ... I love this guy and he can't even talk.

He thought he was dying. He was at the ends of exhaustion. He was having trouble staying awake between rounds.

I have six different careers, each one of which I was successful in. I was a successful person in life because I helped everybody, because I did not do anything wrong.

You rarely see one punch kill anybody. I mean, Davey Moore died, the first fight I ever worked for the title, my guy fought and was getting killed, and he hit Davey Moore. Davey Moore went down. There was no bottom rope to it. I then put bottom rope to it, when I got in power. Hit his head. One blow, hit his head and died.

There shouldn't be a death in the ring. There should never have been deaths in the ring, because people - deaths in the ring occur because they don't keep up with the records well enough. They are putting mismatches together. The people who are licensed to stop a fight, the referee and the corner, don't do it for fear that the audience is going to object to them stopping a fight.

Some people that don't see it as palatable, they shouldn't watch boxing.

At the end of 10 rounds, what you got, unless you have a knockout, of course, and so what you are doing is you are really packaging aggression in its most palatable form.

Aggression, it's the next thing to war, except you don't get killed. Aggression is what you have every day with your wife. Aggression is what you have every day at the office. Box is a legalized form of aggression, where the ending is well-defined, the combat is well-delivered, and you got 10 rounds of two equally-sized fighters fighting aggressively to hurt each other.

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.

They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight.

In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.

The heat was as intense as any fight I've ever been in,

The heat in Manila is an 'I'm about to drown you in a monsoon' type of heat. Oppressive. I had a hard time breathing. Not only were all the seats filled, all the aisles were filled and there people crammed in the rafters. I don't know if you could squeeze in one more person. It was body to body.