Cooking's my hobby.

Fear is unnecessary.

Boxing never hurt me at all.

I don't know how to back up.

I fought in Detroit 23 times.

Punches never bothered me that much.

All my life, I wanted to be champion.

You punch like you take it up the ass.

The world knows me as the Raging Bull.

There's no pensions for old prize fighters.

You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy.

Most people aren't good or bad. They're naive.

I play solitaire and wait for something to happen.

I was a sick animal. I was jealous. I was vicious.

I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.

I forget stuff. Guess I took a few too many punches.

Counting amateur fights, I have over a thousand bouts.

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

There's no way I'm goin' down. I don't go down for nobody.

My greatest defense was my offense. Very few guys did that.

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.

I had such a crazy life. How I got away with it, I don't know.

I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.

When you break bones, they heal up and come back even stronger.

There's a lot of people all over the world that talked about me.

Even when I was hurt, I was always the aggressor, no matter what.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

I fought Sugar Ray so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.

You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.

You know what's the greatest sin in the world? Hurting your fellow man.

There was only one thing I wanted out of life. That was to be the champ.

I was tough at a very young age, where I was just fighting all the time.

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

Besides Bob Satterfield, the only ones who ever hurt me were my ex-wives.

Lot of guys can take punches. The idea is not to take unnecessary punishment.

I guess God blessed me with a hard head, because I really didn't feel punches.

I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times, it's a wonder I don't have diabetes.

I used to psyche myself out. Only, back then, we didn't know the word 'psyche.'

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.

I fought Sugar Ray six times. Pound for pound the greatest fighter who ever lived.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. My hands are too small, and look at these short arms.

You have to treat everybody the right way. Otherwise, you'll have a short life. God bless.

God's been pretty good to me. He made me duck all those punches that were supposed to land.

People get in auto accidents, they're paralyzed for life. I got hurt worse getting married.

I'm the Godfather of Boxing. Everything is out in the open with me. What you see is what you get.

In my whole career, I've never really gotten hurt. The only ones that really hurt me were my wives.

All my life I made a living out of hurting people. Now, I make a living out of making people laugh.

You don't compare a guy with 30 or 40 fights with a guy who had 200 fights and fought over 25 years.

The three toughest fighters I fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson.

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