"My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?"
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"I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do"
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"I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more."
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"That's all they said was wrong with me?"
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"Sued King for $100 million, alleging the boxing promoter cheated him out of millions over more than a decade. It was settled out of court for $14 million."
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"Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head"
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"There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round."
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"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."
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"Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter."
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"I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down."
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"I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven."
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"I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail."
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"So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it."
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"I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot."
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"I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with."
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"I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me."
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"But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all."
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"You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me."
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"Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough."
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"The show was bad, but I was great"
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