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As long as there's this welfare state of ours we're not going to have any good fighters
You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the s*** knocked out of me
Patience is like ice cold water running through your veins, but our love will be immense
Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.
When somebody used to compliment me, I'd spend 10 minutes trying to talk them out of it.
I just love to fight, and regardless of who I'm fighting, I want to be at the top level.
You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.
I don't have any doubt in my mind: I could knock out any man in the heavyweight division.
I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.
My favorite was going as a boxer when I was 9 years old and wearing my dad's boxing gear.
You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that.
You can gain reconciliation from your enemies, but you can only gain peace from yourself.
If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'
I do much less sparring and always with the purpose of working on something in particular.
It's a great feeling to be the WBC champ of the world, but there's more to gain from this.
The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit.
I see myself fighting for about six more fights and I'll be done and happy with my career.
Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise.
The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
If I can convince you that I'm going to beat you up, and you believe me, that's your fault.
I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.
I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.
I want to win. For myself first. And for all those people who stuck with me and understood.
I believe in myself. I want to be a fighter. I want to be heavyweight champion of the world.
I can't overlook any opponent because all fighters are dangerous. Every fighter is dangerous.
The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.
And I don't want to sit around. I want to fight four times a year. Whoever's ready, I'm ready.
I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.
For every athlete, the roar of the crowd goes away, and we have to learn how to turn the page.
To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.
Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.
You have to, as an individual, know how to tune that stage of your life that's in the past out.
You know I like that fight and I'm confident of walking away with two super-middleweight titles
I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off.
I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.
UFC is street fighting in a cage. Boxing is a controlled, skilled talent. There's no comparison.
About 99 percent of fighters end up broke. F.I.S.T. helps them turn the page and find new goals.
As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.
I loved playing in the fields back home and racing with my fellow students on the way to school.
I wanted to show the world what Deontay Wilder is all about. I'm a heavyweight, and I'm exciting.
Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.
Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?
I am going to get world-wide recognition from whoever wants it, and whoever wants to challenge me.
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
I learned my weaknesses at the Asian Games and other competitions where I lost. My guard was down.
On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.
Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.
Being able to do what I do in the ring and out of the ring is evidence that I'm not from this world.
I'm one of the baddest, hardest-hitting heavyweights in the business. Right here from Alabama, baby.
I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know