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- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day, it was the same: school, homework, farm work, training. Getting hurt or dying might've been better than the life I was living.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fishing keeps you alive, gives you time away - to enjoy God, the creations that He made. Because God made you.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so scared of my father. He'd pull up in his truck and start looking for something I'd done wrong. There was no escape, no excuse, no way out of nothing.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had a fetish for fighting big peoples. My dad put me in the ring with much bigger guys. In my first fight, I gave the guy a 14-pound advantage.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started talking about retiring in 1997. This is a brutal game, and 25 years of it ain't good for your health. After I get past Tarver on Saturday, give me Klitschko or Tyson. Otherwise, I'm outta here.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had more energy at 25 and did more jiving around. People got to understand that when you're not so interested in something, you're not gonna do it to the best of your ability. I used to get excited working the crowd, but no more.
- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad sacrificed his relationship with me so I'd be stronger for it. But I could never do it to my kids - I like to have a happy relationship with them.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
They've made it a felon to drive from Florida to Louisiana with any fighting birds, so I've had to get rid of most of my chickens. I only got about a hundred left now, which I just keep for colour and breeding. I love those birds as much as anything.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what tomorrow holds. None of us do. We got to wait and see what God has planned.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I learned from the '88 Olympics: It's not a question of if they can screw you over: it's a question of if they will. It's not the gold medal they took away from me. The medal doesn't mean anything. It's that they said I lost. That experience is well and alive in my mind.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I give my roosters the best of food. I give them the best of care. I give them everything they want before I ask them to sacrifice. Get a rooster comfortable, and he'll fight his ass off. That's all I ask of HBO. They just can't see that.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got real bored in '96. Wasn't nobody to fight. Nothing to look forward to. That's when I started playing basketball again. Had I not started playing basketball, my boxing career would have failed. But I went from a sport where nobody could touch me to another where I couldn't touch nobody.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my prime, I was the ruler. Simple as that. I understand there's a lot of great fighters who've followed me already since I was the champ - and I hope there's another who comes along does even better because want to see that - but I haven't seen anyone do what I did yet.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't pretend there has ever been anyone come close to doing what I did. Nobody you could name could touch me, and I'm talking about nobody who's around now, nobody who was around in my prime, and nobody who was around any time you can mention outta your mouth.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When me and Mike Tyson were around, we played king of the hill. Whoever comes to the hill, you get your behind whooped. We don't pick and choose. I fought guys when I had fractured wrists and ribs, bad backs, I didn't care. I was the king of the hill; Tyson was king of the hill. When we left, people were trying to get the 'most money fight.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've tried to stick with the same people from when my career started to today. The more people you add around you, the more distractions you have, and that's the last thing I need.
- Ask
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids always used to come up and ask me if I ever fought Mike Tyson, and I used to tell them that we couldn't because we were in different weight classes.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you put that muscle on, it's hard to go back down. Most guys, when they put that muscle on, they just stay big. To go back down while at the same time trying to maintain that punching power, it's very tough.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty good at video games, but I'm the champ when it comes to pinball, and that's just because it's old-fashion like I am. I can't get enough of pinball.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know how many people would give up their life to get in one NBA game or NFL game or get one fight? Just to do something that has been a dream and they've aspired to do for their whole life - can you imagine what that means for a person?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020