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"Today, many fans are saddened and upset by the lack of integrity they see in professional boxing that has significantly weakened the sport - the most deplorable problem of which is the treatment of the sport's athletes."
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"I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner."
"As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day."
"I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012."
"So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it."
"We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen."
"There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously."
"I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman."
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