- Nov 07, 2020
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- Stupid
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Punishment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lot of guys can take punches. The idea is not to take unnecessary punishment.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people aren't good or bad. They're naive.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm no angel.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play solitaire and wait for something to happen.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
I forget stuff. Guess I took a few too many punches.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hypnotized myself so in my subconscious, I believed I couldn't get hurt. And I don't mean 'believe' - I mean believe believe believe.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fought Sugar Ray six times. Pound for pound the greatest fighter who ever lived.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.
- Boxing Match
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they'd have a boxing match every week; they'd bring guys in from outside to fight me.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something's bound to happen to you in a tough fight: cut eye, broken nose or broken hand or something like that. So you could make excuses out of anything, you know, but you got to keep on going if you're a champ or you're a contender.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my life I made a living out of hurting people. Now, I make a living out of making people laugh.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was able to convince my body that I could take it and nobody could hurt me. I might've gotten cut, stitches over my eyes. Broken nose. Broken hands. But I never really got hurt.
- Nov 07, 2020
The three toughest fighters I fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never went to church. The priests couldn't scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I'd pay for it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Subconsciously - I didn't know it then, I realize it today when I know a little bit more about the mind and the brain - I fought like I didn't deserve to live.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't born to be a fighter. My hands are too small, and look at these short arms.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the Godfather of Boxing. Everything is out in the open with me. What you see is what you get.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ask for personal appearance fees because I've earned them. I deserve them. My presence at events is what they need, so they ought to pay for it.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no pensions for old prize fighters.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a million, and I lost a million.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned a lot about life besides how to take a punch. And I've taken quite a few in and out of the ring.
- Ex-Wives
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big money causes me too much trouble with my ex-wives and the government. All I want is to keep busy and to be comfortable.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I did have a lot of money, I got in trouble.
- Fought
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fought in Detroit 23 times.
- Counting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Counting amateur fights, I have over a thousand bouts.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, pound-for-pound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't compare a guy with 30 or 40 fights with a guy who had 200 fights and fought over 25 years.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God's been pretty good to me. He made me duck all those punches that were supposed to land.
- Deserved
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My nose was broken six times, my hands six times, a few fractured ribs. Fifty stitches over my eyes. But the only place I got hurt was out of the ring.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was a no-good bastard.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punches never bothered me that much.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost a lot of money, lost my wife and kids.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boxing never hurt me at all.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
People get in auto accidents, they're paralyzed for life. I got hurt worse getting married.
- Jealous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a sick animal. I was jealous. I was vicious.
- Hobby
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- Nov 07, 2020