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Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.
I just don't know how I was able to be a boxer in the first place without believing God.
I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.
You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest
With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.
Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.
I had did so much to Larry [Holmes] in the ring that I made him respect me in the fight.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting
You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own.
As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.
To have a heavyweight world champion from Manchester is something you can only dream of.
Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.
We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.
Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.
I want to cause havoc. I want to cause mayhem - and I mean the worst mayhem you can see.
Getting into character to become 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan for the 'Creed' film was surreal.
I am not a heavy drinker, I've never taken a drug in my life, but I am prone to a pizza.
I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.
I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
On your way to the top, you always get some chriticism. Criticism is a great motivation.
It's a huge deal to have the chance to be a four-division world champion at 26 years old.
Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
I'm very confident in myself and in my ability, but in boxing there's always the unknown.
As long as you know you gave whatever you did 100% you're considered a winner in my book.
The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally.
All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
When I go into the ring, I don't hate opponents, and I certainly don't want to hurt them.
Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
As a fighter I hold a certain level of pride and can only deal so much with the politics.
Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.
I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.
I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.
If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.
People say nice things about me but they don't know what's been going on between my ears.
Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
As any fighter does, we all go down. Very few get up. I've done it on multiple occasions.
How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work
I've been doing this 26 years and have a lot of knowledge which will help me in the ring.
I'm really not worrying about jumping weight classes. For me, the weight is not a problem.
To come to somebody's hometown and beat them on a split decision, that's saying something.