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It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Funny
Work
Boxers
Sleep
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When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Men
War
Going To War
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Don't doubt me, because that's when I get stronger.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Doubt
Doubt Me
Stronger
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I'm going to keep on being Marvelous Marvin Hagler.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Marvelous
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It's hard to get up at 6am when you're wearing silk pyjamas.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Get Up
Silk
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Nothing can intimidate me. I just go out and destruct and destroy.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
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I like acting very much because I don't get punched, and it's not real.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Punched
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People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Champion
Important
People
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No one is the same after I fought them - Hearns, Duran, Leonard. All of them.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Duran
Fought
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I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting but I try not to look like it
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Fighting
Thinking
Trying
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I like to see the smiles on people's faces when I show them I can do the impossible.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Faces
Impossible
People
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Sugar Ray wouldn't give me a rematch, and that's the reason I walked away from boxing.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Give Me
Sugar
Ray
Walked
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Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Trust
Sports
Games
People
Shady
Period
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If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Cutting
Gloves
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In boxing, there's no more secrets today. Technology is such that you know everything about everyone.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Secrets
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The only difference between street fighting and boxing is there a ref there from stopping me from killing you
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Differences
Fighting
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Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Fighting
Heart
Should Have
Sugar
Won
Outcome
Publicly
Ray
Sugar Ray Leonard
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Fighters remember that one-punch KO. Something clicks, and they lose it. They don't wanna be knocked out. It happened to Roy Jones.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Clicks
Wanna
Fighters
Roy
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I tried my best to ensure I kept the respect for the middleweight division in the tradition of Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake La Motta.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Division
Sugar
Ensure
La
Ray
Robinson
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Whether Pacquiao loses in the first round, whether he knocks out Mayweather in the first round, it's still going to be the biggest fight in history.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Fighting
Firsts
Mayweather
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In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Sports
Halloween
Pain
Helped
Popular
Robbed
So Many People
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You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Motivational
Fighting
Long
Looking Back
Best Time Fight
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Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Art
Sports
Attention
Dedicated
Devotion
Fighter
Mean
Sacrifice
Yeah
Oh
Oh Yeah
Paying
Studying
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It is a great feeling when you lay down at night, and you know there are little kids out there imitating you, and people want to know what you eat and when you go to sleep.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Imitating
Night
Sleep
Eat
Great Night People
Feeling
Great Feeling
Lay
Little Kids
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For me, I believe George Foreman was a bad example because when he became world heavyweight champion again at 42, that made a lot of fighters think they could also carry on.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Champion
Example
Believe World Champion
Again
Believe World Me
Bad Example
Became
Carry
Believe I Believe World
Fighters
Foreman
Heavyweight
George
Champion World Believe
George Foreman
Heavyweight Champion
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You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Sports
Fighting
Thinking
Fights
Shot
Earlier
Great Career
Till
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The likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns were true champions. There were some incredible fights between us, and I was happy to give them all an opportunity to fight me.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Likes
Sugar
Fights
Champions
Duran
Ray
Roberto
Sugar Ray Leonard
Tommy
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Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Sports
Bad People
Country
Sitting
Stupid
English People
Forgive
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I trained in Provincetown, Mass. Back then, they didn't have all the tourists on Cape Cod. Very isolated. Very good spot. I called it the jail. All you could do was train, run, walk, talk boxing.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Isolated
Jail
Mass
Tourists
Cape
Spot
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These interviews, sometimes they jog your memories, like what you were doing when you were 10 years old. They're always searching for your past; they can keep you living there. I want to go on to the future.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Interviews
Jog
Searching
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I want to advance myself in some areas. I want to go into broadcasting, be a boxing commentator and still get to travel, and I want to take courses so I can speak better. I want to take courses in business and promotion.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Broadcasting
Courses
Promotion
Advance
Commentator
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A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion. If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Champion
Cutting
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I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Diet
Coke
Different Life
Pizza
Life Where Me
Director
Call
Commercials
Hut
Italy
Pizza Hut
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Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back to after they are finished. Some fighters still have the burning fire and feel that they just need to try one more time. Few can do it.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Burning
Fighters
Something Else
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The situation right after the fight wasn't too good; I believe I'm still the only champion in the world who never received the belt inside the ring once you've won the title. I held that against the English fans for a long time but I felt that also motivated me.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Sports
Believe
Champion
Fighting
Motivated
Time Good Believe
Ring
Belt
Held
Received
Title
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I know that when a fighter is out of the ring for more than two years, when he comes back he isn't the same anymore. Each fighter is different. But each must think, even if something goes wrong, 'I have to make this decision and live with it for the rest of my life.'
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Decision
Life Decision My Life
Anymore
Ring
Life Live My Life
Rest
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There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Sports
Boxing
Focus
Media
Order
Work Respect Great
Maintain
Motivates
Perceived
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When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'
Marvin Hagler / Professional Boxer
Scary
Finish
Hoped
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