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Closer to a fight, I can really feel my heartbeat in my chest. I can hear it beat through my mouth, this 'gunk, gunk, gunk' rhythm.
Audley Harrison is quite a soft, gentle guy. He gives it all the talk but, when he's in the ring, you can see he's scared to death.
I'm super proud of myself, not because I can throw punches inside a ring but just because of my journey and who I proved that I am.
I was actually very fortunate. I think I was actually the only kid in my class at one stage that actually had a father in the home.
I think my whole living in vain involves me. I know that the biggest help for me is to help someone else in so many different ways.
I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.
All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.
Most of the time, husbands and wives argue about stupid, foolish things. If it doesn't mean that much to you, give in to your wife.
I don't want my career to peter out fighting meaningless fights; I want to go against the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world.
I didn't like school at all. I was bullied and didn't have a good time. Boxing was my escapism, and the ring was where I felt best.
I try to work out about four or five times a week. I'll do a little bit of cardio, half hour on the punchbag, or just go for a jog.
Enzo, my dad, supports Juventus, so that's my team and, obviously, Italy, who I've been fortunate enough to see win two World Cups.
Every fighter, when they box, wants to leave a mark in their sport, or a legacy, and I managed to do that beyond my wildest dreams.
I dropped out of high school so I could attend another kind of school, an internship of champions. I dropped out to live my dreams.
I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
Fighters remember that one-punch KO. Something clicks, and they lose it. They don't wanna be knocked out. It happened to Roy Jones.
I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.
I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'
Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press.
When you are challenging for the world title, you've got to go into the lion's den to try and rip that belt away from the champion.
I don't care about no boxing legacy. I don't care where they put me on the list of all-time greats - let them put me at the bottom.
Mayweather was TBE - The Best Ever - at making money, but look at his highlights and look at mine. You can't pretend it's the same.
I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.
I systematically break guys down. I get in the ring and they say I don't have any power but then they feel me and feel my strength.
I realised that I could either fight and get into trouble on the street or I could fight and get paid in the ring. I chose the ring.
He was fortunate to fight me on a bad night because if he fights me when I'm firing on all cylinders, he's getting battered as well.
I boxed till my late 30s, so 47, that's impossible really to be at your best and if you aren't at your best you shouldn't be boxing.
Any true champion can bounce back. That's what being a champion is: being able to deal with adversity and being able to bounce back.
An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.
I think you reach your full potential by fighting often enough against varied types of opponents. This makes you a complete fighter.
My birthday was Monday, now I finally get to go home and enjoy it with some Burger King. Here I come baby! Burger King! Burger King!
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.
Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.
The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.
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.
No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.
This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose
Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style.
If I fought like I was looking for a place in history, it would ruin me as a person. I don't think history is worth selling my soul.
They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.
I think my experience is going to make a difference, but I also think that my speed and power are going to make a bigger difference.
I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.
Looking back at all of my defeats, the only real punishment that I've taken in this sport was against Maidana. I got a fractured jaw.
Don't worry about the title. Worry about what you've got to do today, tomorrow, the next day, and that title will be waiting for you.
Belts are immaterial. What's material to me is who have you fought, how many rounds have you fought, how many fights have you fought.
Sometimes big boxing matches should take place on the cobbles. That's really where Mikkel Kessler and me ought to have sorted it out.
I always told everyone I'd be heavyweight champion of the world one day. They'd say, 'All right, whatever.' I said, 'OK, you'll see.'
Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.