"How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry."
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"He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time."
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"Boxing is the gift I have been given for whatever reason and I'd love to honour God in everything I do."
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"Boxing kept me out of the streets, by giving me something to do. And it gave me a father figure in the coach that was there for me. I just reiterated what my mother was trying to teach me about focusing and getting my life together."
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"People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me."
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"If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up."
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"I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on."
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"Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it."
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"I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy."
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"I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me."
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"Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for."
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"There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy."
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"I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos."
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"The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature."
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"You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it."
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"Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg."
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"People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing."
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"If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky."
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"Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better."
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"Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly."
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