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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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Lennox Lewis
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 2
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Lennox Claudius Lewis
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Adversity
Goals
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Every era that comes along has a superstar that emerges. Once we are out of the game, there will be a superstar who will emerge that everyone will notice.
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For me, there's never any bad blood - unless you do something to me.
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The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.
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I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.
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Boxing isn't just about brute strength it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
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There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.
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I have always said I am a five-dimensional fighter.
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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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I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.
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Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.
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It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.
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The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesn’t. They can build up fighters or knock them down.
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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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There is not too much left for me to do, but I am sure there are a couple of great fights out there for me. I have basically achieved my goals. There are a few fights the public wants to see, and that is really what is left for me.
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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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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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People are still crying out for Lennox Lewis. They still want to see Lennox Lewis. That motivated me. I am still young. I have a couple fights left in me.
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Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.
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It's a very interesting fight [Klitchko vs Tyson Fury] because this is the first time [Wladimir] Klitschko is fighting someone as big as him and with longer arms. He will have to be a little bit more aggressive, otherwise the younger guy will have more speed and more energy and I think that may be the difference.
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