"I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter."
"I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out."
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Source: Sport: Larry Holmes: I Still Have It. Interview with Tom Callahan, June 21, 1982.
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