Larry Merchant quotes:
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The Super Bowl is like Christmas shopping at Macy's for bookies.
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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Just because you BEAT Michael Jordan doesn't mean you BECOME Michael Jordan.
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Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.
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It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention.
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Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.
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The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.
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Jameel McCline acts as if attacking Wladimir Klitschko is akin to attacking Russia during winter
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No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.
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There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.
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If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass
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I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a great fighter, came to such an ignominious end.
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Nothing will kill boxing, and nothing can save it.
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This fight figures to be crunk
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To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.
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Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.
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Vitali Klitschko doesn't get enough credit for how intelligent he fights, because he knows when to throw at the target and when to throw through the target.
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Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?