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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.
Larry Holmes
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Larry Holmes
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 3
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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 don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.
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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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You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
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I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue with boxing exhibitions.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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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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[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.
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I think a lot of people like to gamble, and they don't want to go to the casino to gamble. Sometimes they want to do it in the privacy of their home. They can't concentrate the way they want to in a gambling casino.
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This is the lying thieving mother who cut me $500,000.
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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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Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.
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I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world.
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