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Fear is unnecessary.

Most of the time, husbands and wives argue about stupid, foolish things. If it doesn't mean that much to you, give in to your wife.

Lot of guys can take punches. The idea is not to take unnecessary punishment.

Most people aren't good or bad. They're naive.

I'm no angel.

I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times, it's a wonder I don't have diabetes.

I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

I play solitaire and wait for something to happen.

I forget stuff. Guess I took a few too many punches.

There's a lot of people all over the world that talked about me.

You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy.

You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.

I used to psyche myself out. Only, back then, we didn't know the word 'psyche.'

I hypnotized myself so in my subconscious, I believed I couldn't get hurt. And I don't mean 'believe' - I mean believe believe believe.

I fought Sugar Ray six times. Pound for pound the greatest fighter who ever lived.

I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.

Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they'd have a boxing match every week; they'd bring guys in from outside to fight me.

Something's bound to happen to you in a tough fight: cut eye, broken nose or broken hand or something like that. So you could make excuses out of anything, you know, but you got to keep on going if you're a champ or you're a contender.

I guess God blessed me with a hard head, because I really didn't feel punches.

I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.

All my life I made a living out of hurting people. Now, I make a living out of making people laugh.

You know what's the greatest sin in the world? Hurting your fellow man.

I was able to convince my body that I could take it and nobody could hurt me. I might've gotten cut, stitches over my eyes. Broken nose. Broken hands. But I never really got hurt.

The three toughest fighters I fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson.

I never went to church. The priests couldn't scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I'd pay for it.

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.

Subconsciously - I didn't know it then, I realize it today when I know a little bit more about the mind and the brain - I fought like I didn't deserve to live.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. My hands are too small, and look at these short arms.

When you break bones, they heal up and come back even stronger.

I'm the Godfather of Boxing. Everything is out in the open with me. What you see is what you get.

I ask for personal appearance fees because I've earned them. I deserve them. My presence at events is what they need, so they ought to pay for it.

There was only one thing I wanted out of life. That was to be the champ.

There's no pensions for old prize fighters.

I made a million, and I lost a million.

I've learned a lot about life besides how to take a punch. And I've taken quite a few in and out of the ring.

Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover it's not what they wanted at all. I don't want to be rich.

Big money causes me too much trouble with my ex-wives and the government. All I want is to keep busy and to be comfortable.

Whenever I did have a lot of money, I got in trouble.

I fought in Detroit 23 times.

Counting amateur fights, I have over a thousand bouts.

I fought from the time I was eight years old, sometimes three, four fights a night. We did it to eat, and we did it because we were just tough kids.

Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, pound-for-pound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss.

You don't compare a guy with 30 or 40 fights with a guy who had 200 fights and fought over 25 years.

God's been pretty good to me. He made me duck all those punches that were supposed to land.

I had such a crazy life. How I got away with it, I don't know.

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.

My nose was broken six times, my hands six times, a few fractured ribs. Fifty stitches over my eyes. But the only place I got hurt was out of the ring.

Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper.

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.

I was a no-good bastard.

Punches never bothered me that much.

I lost a lot of money, lost my wife and kids.

Boxing never hurt me at all.

People get in auto accidents, they're paralyzed for life. I got hurt worse getting married.

I was a sick animal. I was jealous. I was vicious.

Cooking's my hobby.

When you're No. 1 contender for five years, and you know who's controlling things, you'll do something you're not proud of.

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