Quotes about Joe Louis

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I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

Reporter: If you win this puts you in the Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson level. How do you control the fight?
Tyson: It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters, but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under.

They wanted another Joe Louis. A white man's black man... Didn't these idiots realize that Cassius Clay was the name of a slave owner? Had I been black and my name Cassius Clay, I damned well would have changed it!

Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.

On former champion Joe Lewis

Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit.... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.