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It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

Lennox Lewis

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Lennox Lewis
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 2
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Lennox Claudius Lewis
Drives
Boxing
Rage
Competition

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The fight will last as long as I allow it to last.
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When I was fighting Tyrell Biggs, Tyson was telling me at ringside to hit him to the ribs. We always had a mutual respect for each other since we sparred those early times. We got that over with.
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When I saw Tyson knocking everybody out on TV, I thought, He's goooood. But when I saw him in person, he didn't look as awesome.
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Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.
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The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.
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You’'ve got to understand that everything has its time. I had wonderful years as a boxer, I achieved everything. I don’t miss anything.
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I'm undisputed and there's no disputing that.
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If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.
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As a boxer I took the liberty of using not only my fists, but also my head.
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After about 25 fights you don't always have to keep going to the bathroom before the fight.
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I have always said I am a five-dimensional fighter.
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I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.
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How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!
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I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knowk you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting.
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There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.
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A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But that’s complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that you’ve still got it, that it’s still getting better.
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Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.
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Sometimes the image of the intellectual boxer did for me more harm than good. If a boxer has a reputation as an intellectual, some people no longer respect him as a fighter. With me it was always ‘Lennox should react, not think’. But that’s nonsense. Only the guy who controls his opponent wins.
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Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.
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If you’ve got physical weaknesses, you’ll lose. Nobody who gets cut easily can be a champion, however strong and talented he is. Boxers are trained to see and exploit their opponents’ weaknesses, they hit you on your wounds. Only the strongest survive in this sport.
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