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[JAB5239]

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[JAB5239]

'I skipped the violin lessons and hid my fiddle in my locker at the Brewster Boxing Gym where I went to work out. When my mama finally found out, she never protested. All she said was that if boxing was something that I really wanted to do, I could keep on with it. Incidentally, on my way home from...

[JAB5239]

'I try to look tough because I'm trying to get the scare on the other guy. The way some of those suckers fight I guess they are scared. But a boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. That's what the fans pay for - to see the bad guys get beat....

[JAB5239]

'I was born in a sharecropper's tumbledown shack on a dirt road in Alabama, on May 13th 1914. Later, I was a Depression kid in the Detroit slums. Whenever I could, I earned a few cents after school by working on an ice truck. I toted 75lbs chunks of ice three or four floors up.
Nights I hung...

[JAB5239]

'If you quit every time things don't go your way, then you'll be quitting all through your life.'
- Evander Holyfield...

[JAB5239]

'Boxing is a poor man’s sport. It’s a sport that demands your outright respect. Most people look at boxing or any contact sport and say, 'Wow, I couldn’t do that,' because they don’t possess the thing inside of us that makes us go through pain. It takes something to activate...

[JAB5239]

'Micky is the toughest guy that I ever fought in my life. There aren't many guys like him around. The sport needs people like me and Micky Ward. Me and Micky make the sport look good, and we make other fighters work harder when they see us fight. Micky is unbelievable. He has the heart of a lion. He...

[JAB5239]

'Just because a kid looks good in sparring doesn't mean he's the real McCoy. When you spar, it's with oversize gloves and protective headgear. And the fact that a guy looks like Superman in sparring doesn't mean he won't freeze up when it's the real deal - when the lights are on and the crowd is screaming...

[JAB5239]

'A new champion had arrived and his name was Jack Johnson. I had attained my life's ambition. The little Galveston colored boy had defeated the world's champion boxer and, for the first and only time in history, a black man held one of the greatest honors which exists in the field of sports and athletics...

[JAB5239]

'You can’t imagine what it was like to be the first Jamaican world champion. That means everything to me. That was the best feeling to know that you are the first world champion boxer in Jamaica.'
- Mike McCallum...

[JAB5239]

'Remember - he laughs last who hits hardest.'

- Jack Dempsey