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

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You get these moments in the ring that live forever. That's what Muhammad Ali accomplished, and I hope that I have, too.

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

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I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.

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

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I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

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

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

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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.

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Ray Leonard is more the family man, kind of quiet. He's not as outgoing as Sugar Ray Leonard. Sugar Ray Leonard was very determined, very focused, very outgoing and very selfish, if you will. There are two different individuals there.

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Boxing is individual, although there's a team concept because you need a great corner, you need a great trainer, you need a great prep man, you need all of these things, but it's more of a Mano a Mano; it's more you versus me. I miss that time in training camp and Dad and Mom cooking meals. It was one big family.

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

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I run three to four times a week. I go down to Orange County in California and I run all the time... all the time. You see the oceans, the trees. I like running in hot weather. I like to sweat and get all those toxins out of my system. I thoroughly enjoy it.

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Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would run by myself. That was my time to choreograph the fight in my head, so I needed to be myself.

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

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I made the decision to turn pro, and I remember what Ali said to me: 'Get Angelo Dundee. He's the right complexion with the right connection.' He knew boxing. Our relationship was so genuine, so sincere.

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Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

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When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much.

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People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it - that nothing compares to being champ.

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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.

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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.

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I enjoy the school run and being a dad. Boxing will always be with me. I like that.

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People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.

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The Olympics meant everything to me. Going through them is like nothing else you will ever experience. For those few weeks, you are in another world. At that point, I couldn't see how there could ever be anything better.

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I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

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The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.

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