Lennox Lewis Quotes
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I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.
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Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.
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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.
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The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.
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I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.
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Every era that comes along has a superstar that emerges. Once we are out of the game, there will be a superstar who will emerge that everyone will notice.
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I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.
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Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.
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[Kirk] Johnson throws some heavy punches and is a knockout fighter. This is what people want to see. They want to see a fight, they want to see punches and they want to see action.
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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.
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How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!
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The Tyson fight was like the hardest I ever trained for a fight in my entire career.
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I could never stand big-mouthed types. I had problems with that at high school. Ive still got the scars on my fists from the teeth of the guys I hit so that theyd 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.
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It's a very interesting fight [Klitchko vs Tyson Fury] because this is the first time [Wladimir] Klitschko is fighting someone as big as him and with longer arms. He will have to be a little bit more aggressive, otherwise the younger guy will have more speed and more energy and I think that may be the difference.
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I come across famous people all the time. It's the respect factor I appreciate. They respect me, they respect what I've achieved and the manner I've done it. It's street credibility. They know where I'm coming from, they know my reputation.
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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.
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Mike Tyson fit the American ideal of a boxer. A fighter who jumps out of his corner and hits out fiercely. Thats what he'll be remembered for. But good boxing doesnt work like that. Tyson never won on points. It was clear that he'd come a cropper some day.
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In boxing, if you think you will lose..you're already halfway there.
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I don't have anything else to prove.
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For me, there's never any bad blood - unless you do something to me.
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There are still a lot of Mike Tyson fans out there, and a lot of disbelievers in the first fight, and they want to see us fight again. I am the emperor. If he wants to fight, I am here. If he does not, I understand.
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Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist. .
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The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesnt. They can build up fighters or knock them down.
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Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.