Ken Norton Quotes

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

I forget stuff. Guess I took a few too many punches.

Every time a fighter steps into the ring, he's borrowing against his future well-being.

In boxing, you've got CTE from head trauma constantly.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

I've had an alarming amount of concussions.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.

There is nothing more terrifying than lying in the ring and feeling that your hand has gone numb.

I've seen so many fighters getting knocked out.

I dropped Nascimento in the first round, but he came back, and I had to dig really deep because he was gaining the whole time. He ruptured my left ear drum with a right hand in the fifth round, which caused a few hearing problems, but I was able to overcome it.

I've gotten punched in the face before by Cena. His hands are like rocks.

If I have another concussion and I don't feel like I can play anymore, then I won't.

I don't ever want to be a punch drunk.

We got four-ounce gloves here. It's not hard to knock someone out.

After the situation I had with my concussion in 2015, how long and lasting the effects were, I'm just more careful about it.

I've never been knocked unconscious in my entire career.

My nose was broken six times, my hands six times, a few fractured ribs. Fifty stitches over my eyes. But the only place I got hurt was out of the ring.

I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

When people say that you kind of just get - you know, just feel like a little buzzed or dazed or had your bell rung - they consider that a concussion. I wouldn't. But if that is considered a concussion, I would say any football player at least records 50 to 100 in the course of a year.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'