Lennox Lewis Quotes - Page 2

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• You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age.

  Lennox Lewis

  Wine, Get Better, Age

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

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• People want to see me back in the ring. I think it is more of a drag lying around on the beach.

  Lennox Lewis

  Beach, Lying, Thinking

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

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• People know I was the last true champion.

  Lennox Lewis

  People, Champion, Lasts

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• I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighting, People, Bored

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

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• I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

  Lennox Lewis

  Heavyweights, Scene, Accomplished

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• I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.

  Lennox Lewis

  Heavyweights, Plans, Rings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I just want to complete my legacy.

  Lennox Lewis

  Legacy, Want

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• If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

  Lennox Lewis

  Media, Chess, Angle

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• The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.

  Lennox Lewis

  Champion, Heavyweights, World

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• Different fights bring out different things. I consider myself a seasoned professional. I have done things in the gym that have not come out yet. People would be amazed if they saw me train.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighting, People, Done

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

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• A great champion needs a background in amateur boxing, I’'m convinced of that. There you learn everything that you’ll need later as a pro. Someone who’s got more than 400 amateur fights behind him no longer gets nervous before going into the ring and doesn’t lose his nerve during a fight. You know all the boxing styles, you’re prepared for anything, you’ve got the pedigree that you need to be a successful pro.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighting, Successful, Boxing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesn’t. They can build up fighters or knock them down.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighter

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As a boxer I took the liberty of using not only my fists, but also my head.

  Lennox Lewis

  Liberty

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• After about 25 fights you don't always have to keep going to the bathroom before the fight.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighting, Bathroom, Keep Going

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• When I was fighting Tyrell Biggs, Tyson was telling me at ringside to hit him to the ribs. We always had a mutual respect for each other since we sparred those early times. We got that over with.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighting, Ribs, Tyson

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• I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knowk you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting.

  Lennox Lewis

  Children, Attitude, School

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• I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.

  Lennox Lewis

  Kids, East London, Boxing

  "Lennox Lewis Answers Your Questions". "Talking Point: Forum", news.bbc.co.uk. December 21, 1999.

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• I am going to have one Klitschko for breakfast and one Klitschko for lunch.

  Lennox Lewis

  Lunch, Breakfast

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

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• At first I didn’t give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the more I thought about leaving something behind. Yes, it's as important as hell to me. I want to leave something that people will remember me by. Of course, a lot of boxers want to do that. But it's not easy. Take Larry Holmes, he was the big man after Muhammad Ali, he wanted to emulate him, but for some reason the public didn’t take him like they did to Ali. I think people won’t fully understand what I contributed to the sport for years.

  Lennox Lewis

  Sports, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You’'ve got to understand that everything has its time. I had wonderful years as a boxer, I achieved everything. I don’t miss anything.

  Lennox Lewis

  Missing, Wonderful

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Boxing and chess are similar. It’s about the choice of means. Sometimes I need a pawn, a bishop or a knight to defeat my opponent. It’s about finding the best way. A good boxer has to be variable. He doesn’t just need to know how to punch. He must also know how to protect himself, how to defend, how to avoid the opponent’s punches. Only a complete fighter can become champion.

  Lennox Lewis

  Mean, Boxing, Choices

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I could never stand big-mouthed types. I had problems with that at high school. I’ve still got the scars on my fists from the teeth of the guys I hit so that they’d finally shut up. I came from England to Canada, of course, and was often ridiculed because I had a strange accent. I was expelled from school and it was a long time before I could control myself. But the impulse remained: a punch in the mouth to get some peace and quiet.

  Lennox Lewis

  School, Long, Guy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Patience is a part of boxing. After I had missed out on the Olympic gold medal in 1984, a lot of people tried to talk me into turning professional quickly to make money. They told me that the next Olympics in Seoul would be boycotted again, that I was wasting my life, blah blah. But I still had unfinished business. I wanted the gold medal, and I got it in ‘88. Only then was I ready to turn professional.

  Lennox Lewis

  People, Boxing, Gold

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For me, there's never any bad blood - unless you do something to me.

  Lennox Lewis

  Blood, Bad Blood

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• The Tyson fight was like the hardest I ever trained for a fight in my entire career.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighting, Careers, Tyson

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