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I wanted to be prepared and be strong for any unexpected challenges, so from the beginning I was doing kick-boxing. I was wearing a sauna suit everyday, I was wearing sea goggles, I was wearing gloves. I was trying to put myself through the worst condition ever and most of the training sessions I was puking up.

I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

I want to keep fighting because it's the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.

I was a gorilla boxer. I had a full gorilla suit on with boxing gloves. I had an amateur belt on. No one knew that it was me in the costume and I was going into stores and scaring people and boxing on them. It was fun.

I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. Its always been a part of me.

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.

I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.

I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

I was so good at boxing because I worked hard. I worked harder than anybody. When other boxers used to box in the gym, three or four rounds, I used to box 10-20 rounds.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue with boxing exhibitions.

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.

Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

King's an equal opportunity dirtbag, he screws everybody.

King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked.

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.

Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.

Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

Lie down so I can recognise you

Let's get ready to rumble!

Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

Look at my body. Does it look like I sue steroids?

Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

Michael seems to have lost his values temporarily. He just has to be worked with, disciplined and talked to and given some tender loving care and understanding.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank

Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted time daily to bicycling and shadow-boxing, followed by a cold douche and a brisk rub down?

Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

Mexican style of boxing training is different from what my father had trained me. It was good for me because it was an added knowledge, an addition to my boxing IQ.

Mike Tyson fit the American ideal of a boxer. A fighter who jumps out of his corner and hits out fiercely. That’s what he’'ll be remembered for. But good boxing doesn’t work like that. Tyson never won on points. It was clear that he’'d come a cropper some day.

Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?

Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.

Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.