"He was crying in there, making woman gestures."
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"I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain."
"I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right."
"If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right."
"I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history"
"If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong."
"When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace."
"Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold."
"A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds."
"You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby."
"I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest."
"Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing."
"During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began."
"If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them."
"No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing."
"If he says he has the pizzazz and the sizzle, I have the steak, and substance. I've made more money than he's made. I've made bigger deals than he's made, when he's got the complexion to get the protection."
"The first thing you learn in boxing is that there are NO guarantees."
"If I'm boxing, I'll probably have rap on, or something a little more angry. If I'm lifting, maybe some rock 'n' roll. If I'm doing some cardio, something fast paced."
"I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it."
"Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing."