You just don't heal that easy unless you're young.
Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.
I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.
I only wish that I had had the courage and the knowledge to have gotten that out of my system, out of my mind or my heart years earlier. But there is no book, there is no manual to tell you how to deal with sexual abuse.
Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
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.
Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest.
I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.
Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.
They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.
I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.
I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end
Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.
It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.
I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.
Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.
I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.
My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world.
Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.
Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
It was a whole different world, and Montreal was an absolutely beautiful setting unlike anywhere I'd ever been before. So, Montreal in '76 was an encompassing experience I will cherish for the rest of my life.
"You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing."
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