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I always enjoy myself fighting in Mississippi. I enjoy myself fighting anywhere.
Larry Holmes
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Larry Holmes
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 3
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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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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
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People think that I reached the top overnight well, it took me fourteen years. I was twenty-nine before I really made it. I've had my jaws and hands broken. One arm is out of place. I've paid my dues in this business.
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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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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 don't like Larry Merchant. He thinks he knows everything about a sport that he was never in. He walks around with papers and studies what he writes, he just pisses you off.
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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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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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Leading up to the fight [Trevor Berbick] took every opportunity he could to badmouth Larry Holmes and I just blew up. After I beat him in the ring, he tried to get me going again, saying he deserved another fight, wasn't happening.
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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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