"Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness."
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"I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off."
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"For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line."
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"I'm just happy I'm not a phoney."
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"I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money."
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"I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?"
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"That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time."
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"He's too ugly to be the champ!"
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"I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!"
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"I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again"
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"I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability."
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"That's okay, I'm still the Greatest."
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"I said I was the greatest, not the smartest."
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"Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!"
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"I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood."
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"When you can count your money, you ai'nt got none."
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"I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan."
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"I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me."
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"In America they had no chance - I knocked them all cold in America"
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"Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken...I want to live forever...I refuse to lose...I would have to be carried out dead to lose...I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done."
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