"Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam!"
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"I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum."
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"I will fight for America till the day I drop."
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"Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming."
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"If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules."
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"I'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it."
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"It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation."
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"Bonjour to all the beautiful people of Montreal because this is like home to me. We had Sugar Ray Leonard here who changed the globe and took on Roberto Duran right here in Montreal. How did we get to Montreal? Because it's one of the fairest cities in the world. We were looking for a neutral site and we picked Montreal. Sugar Ray Leonard came in and Roberto Duran beat him - because we got our fair shake in Montreal."
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"His credibility is zilch, virtually nil."
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"He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too."
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"That's what I want to see, and that's what Trump is calling for, to take the power back from Washington, D.C."
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"If Trump were a boxer, he'd be Muhammad Ali. Because he's going to win. He's going to run his mouth, he's going to talk a lot and he's going to win. And you ain't going to know which way he's going. You had the Louisville Lip, he'd be the New York Lip!"
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"Donald Trump has got old-time loyalty, that's why people like him. He keeps his promises. He said he was going to take care of the coal miners and he stayed with the coal miners. People tell him there's no coal, he still stuck with them. He's attuned to them. The air and the pollution, it's all there, but he sticks to what he says he's going to do."
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"Don King is a damn sleezebag. King is nothing but a strong-arm man. He has taken his gangsterism and put it into boxing."
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"Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it."
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"When I came into boxing, when it was more out of control, no fighters got an opportunity to fight. I came in: everybody got an opportunity to make a living in America."
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"People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top."
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"You can see the clouds rolling in and thunder is imminent."
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"Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm."
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"Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life."
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