"I am not a role model."
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"Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business."
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"Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage"
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"We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We’re more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true."
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"What I want to do in life is just be a respectful man and just take care of my children and guide my family in the right direction. I'm not looking to be a chairperson, I'm not looking to be ambassador or anything in that capacity."
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"I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off."
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"This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. Evander Holyfield butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me."
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"I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid."
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"You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?"
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"Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned."
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"I know I have only myself to blame for all the problems I've had in my life."
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"For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line."
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"I'm sorry I let everybody down, I'm fighting just to pay my bills. I don't have the stomach for this anymore... I don't have the desire for it. I feel bad for the people... I wish they could get their money back."
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"I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things."
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"I'm happy because - I'm not doing anything deceitful, I think, to my family. I'm successful because I don't have to sleep with one of my friends' girlfriends or wife or something. That's why I'm successful, that's success to me. I'm not dead, I'm not in the gutter - that's success to me."
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"I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion."
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"I'm just happy I'm not a phoney."
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"I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers . . . I just read all about their lives, their training."
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"Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled."
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"I haven't been with a woman in nine months."
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