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After 14 years in boxing, the best decision I could have made was to take the last year off. My mind was not in boxing, but since I got here with Freddie, everything is working perfectly again. Boxing is all I know. Boxing is my life. Through boxing, I raised my family and I work to provide the best future for them. They are the reason I love boxing.

Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it.

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.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps

All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do

All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.

A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em

And we have a new era in boxing!

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house.

Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined.

As long as there's this welfare state of ours we're not going to have any good fighters

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

At noon I get to the gym to do my boxing workout. Three hours there. Rest. Once in a while I get a massage, because I need it once in while.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.

AWWW ON THE MAIL. The mail man delivers, once again!

Battle rap is a culture. That's boxing, it's like boxing.

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.

Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Boxing is a great way to vent. I don't know if there is a better way, I think for women too. There is something so primal about it and it's the best exercise in the world, even if you don't ever get in the ring.

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.

Boxing is a place where, if you haven't done the training, that's going to be exposed very quickly.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.

Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.

Boxing is not for killing each other.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Boxing is strange to watch. It's impossible to take your eyes off of it. Part of our brains like to watch violence. At the same time, it's horrifying to watch two men try to knock each other out.

Boxing kept me out of the streets, by giving me something to do. And it gave me a father figure in the coach that was there for me. I just reiterated what my mother was trying to teach me about focusing and getting my life together.

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

Boxing's given me the chance to travel around the world and open the door and the world is much brighter.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

Boxing is a business and if it makes sense, other than my brother (Anthony), damn right I'll fight him.

Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.

Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind.

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions.

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.