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🇺🇸Mike Tyson

Entertainment

b. 1966

"Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time."

"He was a tremendous puncher, with either hand. Knock you dead puncher. Knock you dead. And a terrific finisher."

"He knows all the vulnerable spots of the human anatomy as well as the most erudite surgeon in the business and has a greater variety of effective blows than any fighter who ever lived."

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🇺🇸George Foreman

1949–2025

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

"My opponent is tough but I'm tougher, in fact I wrote the book about toughness!"

"It would give me a terrific sense of satisfaction to be the man who sent both Eubank and Benn into retirement. Benn doesn't need me to tell him that he's over the hill because, deep down, he knows it."

"It would give me a terrific sense of satisfaction to be the man who sent both Eubank and Benn into retirement."

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🇷🇺Tamerlan Tsarnaev

1986–2013

"Do you know the Boston Marathon explosion? I did it."

"That little fucker hit me with a Hadukan or something"

"I've got a lot to prove because of the criticism over my weight and moving back down a division."

"Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing."

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🇺🇸Floyd Mayweather Jr.

b. 1977

"Anything can happen in the sport of boxing."

"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."

"I will not quit until I am a five-times world champion."

"Thanks to our brave allies: you gallant Russian bear, you British everywhere."

"In boxing, if you think you will lose..you're already halfway there."

"The impulse to create is pure, self sufficient, its own reward or punishment."

"My experience won this fight…. I knew I was in control. I was not scared. He was not hitting me with anything that was hurting me."

"If you heal yourself you can heal others."

"I been around as far as life existed, 40 is just what humans recognize as my age. Skipping Theology, age will not be an issue."

"I want to be the best fighter. I would like to fight in the biggest fights."

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🇺🇸Mickey Cohen

1913–1976

"I killed nobody that didn't deserve killing. In all of these here killings there was no alternative. You couldn't call them cold-blooded killings.... It was either my life or theirs."

"I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day."

"It's a tough pill to swallow but we can either run from adversity or we can face our adversity head on and conquer it. And that's what I plan to do."

"Eubank has forgotten his roots. He is of African origin and seems to have forgotten that"

"I respect Floyd as a fighter but come 5 May, he's going to be hurting for weeks."

"So we have three planets now with a warming trend; Earth, Mars, and Neptune. That's not an insignificant coincidence."

"It's gonna be a thrilla, a killa, and a chilla, when I get that gorilla in Manila."

"When the colonialists heard about the birth of Golola Moses, they immediately granted Uganda independence."

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Notable Quotes

"Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter."

— Mike Tyson, b. 1966View →

"The warming propaganda machine has lost its momentum and is desperate to get it back. They want to silence Lord Monckton and remove him from the field. To that end they'll say anything. ... Yet when granted a fair forum for debate, it is Monckton who triumphs."

— Anthony Watts, b. 1958View →

"Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time."

— Mike Tyson, b. 1966View →

"So we have three planets now with a warming trend; Earth, Mars, and Neptune. That's not an insignificant coincidence."

— Anthony Watts, b. 1958View →

"On March 5, I will behead Rafael dos Anjos. I will drag his head through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, through a parade of people I'd imagine. It will become a national holiday also I would imagine."

— Conor McGregor, b. 1988View →

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