"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book."

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“Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?”

“A sound body keeps a sound mind.”

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

“I am who I am, and yes, I whipped Ali all three times.”

“Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.”

“I had a job to do in the ring, and the businessmen around me had a job to do outside the ring, I did my job by beating up most of the guys they put in front of me and staying in shape, but the people I trusted didn’t do their jobs.”

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