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What do you want me to do, rob a bank?
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Bank
Rob
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Work hard, think fast and you'll last.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Hard Work
Lasts
Thinking
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There is nothing like wealth for dulling desire.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Desire
Wealth
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The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Sadness
Trouble
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Blood
Needs
Pits
Taste
Bull
Pit
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Accepted
Both Sides
Boxing
Sides
Received
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Issues
People
Sensitive
Upset
Life My Life People
Sensitive Issues
Wanting
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Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Century
Training
Dragged
Slowly
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Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Barney
Big Way
Bringing
Northern
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It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Size
Counts
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
People
Threatened
Together
Watches
Together Me People
Box
Importantly
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I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Sports
Fighting
Tired
Mentally
Sport
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While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Eye
Pupils
Time Me Father
Fox
Time Father Me
Sang
Stared
Terrier
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I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Obnoxious
People
Sound
Thinking
Interested
Bring
Brought
Casually
Step
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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Managers
Our Relationship
Wells
Barney
Eastwood
Extremely
Manager
Promoter
Strengths
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I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Dark
Fighting
Years
Title
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Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Fighter
Heart
Hurt
Stories
Apart
Narrow
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If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Men
Cells
Hands
Paisley
Peter
Cell
Gerry
Lock
Padded
Robinson
Suit
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I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely clears the head. But to sort things out I also like to walk.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Running
Relax
Rowing
Tired
Afterwards
Clears
Cross
Trainer
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250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.
Barry Mcguigan / Professional Boxer
Dublin
Faces
Never Forget
Sea
Winning
Fight World Me
Smiling
Title
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