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It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.

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Larry Holmes
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 3
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I don't see anything happening [in heavyweight division] when I watch these fights, they are very boring. Not only that, but you never heard of any of the fighters.
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You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
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Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.
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I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated because management and fighters take advantage of fighters.
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There is no quit in me.
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Kenny Norton hit me so hard that it still hurts. Now there was a case of two fighters who did not like each other.
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I always enjoy myself fighting in Mississippi. I enjoy myself fighting anywhere.
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I cursed [Larry Merchant] out once, and I told him that he was a phony.
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I'm not a guy who counts cards. I'm a guy that plays with feeling. Because I feel that if something is going to come up, it comes up if it doesn't, it doesn't. And a lot of people get pissed at me because that's the way I play but that's the way I learned to play - with my feelings.
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When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.
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I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought th fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.
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Oliver McCall was someone who I never really got to know too well, and he had some well-publicized problems.
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Set a goal and make a commitment to meet that goal. Do the best you can, but never forget your roots, never forget where you came from. After you have succeeded, look back and see if there are others that you might help to achieve what you have accomplished.
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Don King ain't a bad guy. He cut my earnings, but I don't hold any hard feelings toward him.
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[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.
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Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
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I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.
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Muhammad Ali could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.
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I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.
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