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Courage is how bad you want it.
A sound body keeps a sound mind.
I was never, ever once angry in the ring.
Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.
I don't want nothing comin' at me that I can't stop.
Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.
This is just another man, another fight, another payday.
When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali.
I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.
Preaching don't mean you are a true man. You got to go out and do.
I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.
If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.
Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there.
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.
I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but its in my heart.
Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.
The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.
I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but it's in my heart.
I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone.
It was all about the ring. That's where you got your brains shook and the money took.
You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black
Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.
Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?
Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me?
Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.
If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.
His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.
Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts.
The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.
If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.
Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.
When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.
I loved fighting... It gave me the opportunity to prove myself, to stand up and say, 'I'm the best. I matter. I am.'
I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.
Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, 'Lord, you're in the wrong place tonight.'
I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.
Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.
There's one thing I don't ever think about: losing ... Instead, I think about how I'm going to win, and how I can do it the quickest way.
I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.
This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.
My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye.
Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.
I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.
My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.
There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.
Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.