Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Barry McGuigan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish athlete Barry McGuigan.

Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Finbar Patrick McGuigan MBE is an Irish boxing promoter and former professional boxer. Born in Clones, Ireland, McGuigan was nicknamed The Clones Cyclone and held the WBA and lineal featherweight titles from 1985 to 1986. At regional level he also held the British and European featherweight titles between 1983 and 1985. In 1985, McGuigan became BBC Sports Personality of the Year. In 2005 he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Irish - Athlete | Born: February 28, 1961

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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

Barry McGuigan

While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.

Barry McGuigan

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

Barry McGuigan

I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.

Barry McGuigan

What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

Barry McGuigan

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

Barry McGuigan

Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

Barry McGuigan

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

Barry McGuigan

I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely clears the head. But to sort things out I also like to walk.

Barry McGuigan

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

Barry McGuigan

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Barry McGuigan

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

Barry McGuigan

250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.

Barry McGuigan

It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.

Barry McGuigan

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

Barry McGuigan

I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

Barry McGuigan

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

Barry McGuigan