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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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Lennox Lewis
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 2
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Lennox Claudius Lewis
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For me, there's never any bad blood - unless you do something to me.
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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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Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.
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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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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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It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.
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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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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 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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