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“I am a fight fan. I think boxing had its problems and kind of fell away for a while, but it's coming back strong .”

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The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before…

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I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

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I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

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I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when…

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If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of…

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Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

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With the Klitschkos, though, unless someone comes around, they can stay where they are forever! The heavyweight division is lackluster, and it will be…

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The way to beat the Klitschkos is to get inside, under the jab, and bang to the body. Do that for two or three or four rounds and then the hands will come down and then you turn them over. It's like chopping a tree down. These guys try to headhunt when they fight them and that won't work. But…

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I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path…

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Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.

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I like the Klitschko boys, I think they're in a class of their own. I like Manny Pacquiao. All the super-middleweights are great.

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I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

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I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.

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