"A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em"
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"Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town"
"I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept."
"Kill the body and the head will die."
"Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago"
"The type of work I do is more like CrossFit, so I do track workouts, and I do boxing workouts. So it's a lot of different things that I do. I don't want to overload the body too much, but when we do the hill, it's not like workouts."
"Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength."
"I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him."
"You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?"
"I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum."
"I will fight for America till the day I drop."
"Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming."
"I'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it."
"It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation."
"His credibility is zilch, virtually nil."
"Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it."
"People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top."
"Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'."
"America is the greatest country in the world - I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else."
"I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him."