On this day...

Former WBA featherweight world champion and International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee, Barry 'The Clones Cyclone' McGuigan celebrates his 63rd birthday today.

Happy Birthday Champ. Many Happy Returns.

'For most of my life, nobody listened to what I had to say. Now, wherever I am, everybody pushes and shoves, trying to get close so they can hear me.'

- Marvelous Marvin Hagler

'Fighting is something that I need, an individual competitiveness, the supreme battle of man against man. Whatever it is, I need boxing, because in prison it gave me the will and determination to constantly better myself during the times when it was rough.'

- Ron Lyle

'I've been in the ring with the best of all men, some say the best of all time. I gave my all, round after round, and the world knows I tried. I fought with heart, but needed much more - A bridesmaid but never a bride.'

- Jerry Quarry

'We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.'

- Sugar Ray Leonard

'It's not my style to celebrate openly. I don't do victory dances and I don't gloat, especially not when another guy is feeling like his whole world just caved in.'

- Evander Holyfield

'I've got two punches for Frazier - The balloon punch and the needle punch. My left hand is the balloon and the right is the needle.'

- Muhammad Ali

'As long as I box, I’ll do it any way I want and with whoever they put in front of me.'

- Carlos Monzon

'Brutality is what brings fans to the game. Savagery is what has made boxing great. It has elegant moments and it has savage moments. But it's still a great game. One on one it can be beautiful.'

- Diego Corrales

'There is nothing braver than a manager sending his fighter in to be killed.'

- Jack Dempsey

'I laugh sometimes at how tough the fights are, but when I'm in there it doesn't seem as tough as when I watch it.'

- Arturo Gatti

'For the longest time, my pride was too high. Not the Hit Man. But I learned. When you get in trouble, grab hold. Ride it out. Any man can get hurt. And when he does, he must learn how to survive. Or else.'

- Thomas Hearns

'I don't trust anyone. People want to do me favors. They want to take me out to dinner. But they didn't want to buy me dinner five years ago when I didn't have any food.'

- Mike Tyson

'Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm still presentable. A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em.'

- Muhammad Ali

'If boxing matches were held in telephone booths, I'd be the champion.'

- Chuck Wepner

On this day...

On this day in 1938, two division World Champion and International Hall of Fame inductee, Emile Griffith was born.

Happy Heavenly Birthday Champ. Rest in Peace.

'Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.'

- Gene Tunney

'The Rock don't know too much about the boxing book, but it wasn't a book he hit me with. It was a whole library of bone crushers.'

- Joe Louis

'I don't like to get hit. You know why? It hurts.'

- Willie Pastrano

'Anyone who says he loves this business is a guy you have to look at very carefully. There's nothing to love about being hit on the head.'

- Mike Weaver