"[Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he was right about everything."
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"I love to hit people. I love to."
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"I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him"
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"Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest."
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"I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages"
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"I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free."
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"When my title was taken away boxing died."
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"I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me"
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"I love the fight game. I like the brutality. I like the mentality. I like the aggressiveness, but I like the technique and skill. I like the stakes. I like the people around in the gym. I like the everyday, working class feel of a boxing gym."
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"He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem."
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"My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything."
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"I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together."
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"There's nothing wrong with options. Options are everywhere. In movies, in sports. Options is not a dirty word. I need to pay my overheads, you know. I invest a lot of money developing a fighter and then I deserve to reap the rewards."
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"I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down."
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"I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else."
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"Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali."
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"There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly."
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"Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other."
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"When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four."
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"When Don King's fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses."
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