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We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.

It's hard to talk about yourself.

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.

No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran.

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

You just don't heal that easy unless you're young.

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.

When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.

Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five.

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.

I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end.

I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

For some reason, I was drawn towards boxing. Or maybe boxing drew me towards it - because once I put those gloves on, after about six months, boxing was my life.

I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing - but in life.

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.

I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.

I went through real darkness, but the ring was my light. That was the one place I felt safe. I could control what happened in the ring. My heart turned icy.

I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.

I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.

I wouldn't change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.

For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I'd like to continue to see them push the realism, emphasizing the skill involved.

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and just focusing on training.

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. On the downside, you meet a lot of really bad people in boxing, at all stages of your career.

I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport.

I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.

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