Larry Merchant

“If I was 50 years younger, I'd kick your ass!”

“He's a fighter who has been given the keys to the candy store and he's eating everything.”

“Boxing is a sport of opposites.”

“He's got a Ph.D. in survival.”

“What we have here is the classic confrontation: the bull and the matador. It's what boxing is all about.”

“Boxing is the theater of the unexpected.”

“He throws punches in bunches.”

“That was a street fight in a telephone booth.”

“They say styles make fights, and this one is a Picasso versus a paint-by-numbers kit.”

“He had a granite chin. He could take a punch. I mean, he could take a punch from a mule.”

“It was a fight that had more drama than a Mexican soap opera.”

“He can hit you from angles you didn't know you had.”

“Every great fighter has a story, and his is written in scar tissue.”

“He has the heart of a lion and the chin of a goat.”

“I have to tell you, with all due respect, that I think that is the most ludicrous decision I've ever seen.”