"You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive."
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"You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal."
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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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"Oh yes, the Klitschkos. They got to learn how to fight. Period. But I'll tell you one thing - they're great human specimens. And I'd be happy to be able to work with them. If they chose to work with me. They had an opportunity when they got free of Peter Kohl - they didn't come to me. You know, I'm with who's with me. And I really don't care what fighter it is. I would be happy to promote them..Who could beat Vitali? Rahman could beat Vitali. His style is suited to beat Vitali."
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"Larry is like a son to me and we enjoy a most wonderful relationship, one with meaning, dignity, pride, understanding and purpose. But more importantly, one of mutual respect. Larry and I both pride ourselves on being men of our word and when we say we will be together for life it is not just convention but is said with feeling and commitment that comes from struggling together, growing together and being family."
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"This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere."
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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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"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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"You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream."
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"You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible."
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"I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation."
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"Don't worry about appeasing the establishment. Don't acquiesce to an alleged power. Be with the people, not the establishment. The guy that's sitting next to you, that's who you got to beware. Judas was sitting right next to Jesus."
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"I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte."
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"When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs."
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"Michael seems to have lost his values temporarily. He just has to be worked with, disciplined and talked to and given some tender loving care and understanding."
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"Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit."
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"Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank"
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"There's only one rule anyone connected with boxing must keep in mind - everything you here in boxing is a lie."
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"I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee."
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"Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming."
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