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One thing I want people to know before I leave this game is I gave it my all.
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Ninety percent of the media picked Pavlik, and I always appreciate naysayers. That's what motivates me.
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UFC is street fighting in a cage. Boxing is a controlled, skilled talent. There's no comparison.
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I am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life.
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When I left the penitentiary, I learned to stay away from the Philly cheesesteaks, the pizza, the junk that clogs your arteries and kills you.
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I have already bent time to my will.
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I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.
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When guys say at the press conference, 'I'm not scared' - now, for a guy to tell me he's not scared of me means that you are scared.
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The worst damage a person - a fighter or even a person that's just everyday living - is shorten your life by your lifestyle.
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If I can create an atmosphere to make my job easier and your confidence less, why not?
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Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.
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It's the inner that produces the outer.
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My whole career, I got a lot of credit for not taking punches.
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I've shown, for twenty-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I'm gone, that I am different.
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If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.
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I looked up to Marvin Hagler, Ali.
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A body that doesn't move mentally or physically dies.
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We want to give you the roses when you're dead. That's how human beings think. I try not to think like a human.
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I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.
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I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.
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You look at De La Hoya, and you think that he is an actor or a singer. I'd like to rearrange a couple of things on his face so the pretty boy becomes just another boxer.
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I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.
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I feel in an executioner mood, I am going to punish him and punish him slowly.
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No one's kicking down the door to fight Bernard Hopkins.