Sonny Liston Quotations

It don't matter as long as he can count up to ten.

I never had a dime to my name before I became a fighter. I never had friends before, or respect. Now when people see me on the street, they turn around and say, "Ain't that Sonny Liston, the fighter?

In the films the good guy always wins, but this is one bad guy who ain't gonna lose.

It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10

Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

How would you like to find out how good my right is?

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.