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"One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible."
"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 have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in."
"You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative."
"I don't do anything. My life sucks."
"It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register."
"Even though I heard him say he doesn't believe, cuz' that's why from watching Ali gave me the great deal of confidence and deep-down inner belief to believe there's no man fighting that could beat me."
"I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues."
"Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness."
"I'm the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been."
"I always had a lot of responsibilities. I just didn't take them. I just decided to take care of my responsibilities, live up to them. That's a pretty interesting job. It's harder than being heavyweight champion of the world."
"Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend's gonna have to prove they're your friend, and you're gonna have to prove you're their friend."
"Some people are faster than others; I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon."
"Guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian."
"If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals."
"If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves."
"Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it."
"On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say."
"I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself."
"Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat."