"I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them."
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"You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
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"There's nothing like confidence."
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"The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world."
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"I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'"
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"You never lose until you actually give up."
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"Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn't."
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"When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that."
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"I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them."
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"I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No, I'm Alexander, he's no Alexander. I'm the best ever! There's never been anybody as ruthless! I'm Sonny Liston, I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There's no one that can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!"
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"The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity."
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"You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle."
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"Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn."
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"A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself."
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"Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle."
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"My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person."
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"I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I'm really lost, but I'm trying to find myself. I'm really a sad, pathetic case. My whole life has been a waste. I've been a failure. I just want to escape."
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"I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all."
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"We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals."
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"There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting."
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