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"The third man in the ring makes boxing possible."
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"The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption."
"I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out."
"Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume."
"I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me."
"As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one."
"Sure, there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."
"Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct."
"It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment."
"Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything."
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"I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes."
"I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart."
"How exhausted I am suddenly!-though this has been Ray's best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling-almost-exhilarated."
"A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly and melting on teh ground, a premature snow fall delicate as lace, rapidly melting."
"I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth."
"I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it."
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