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"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."

"New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something."

"Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct."

"Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume."

"Sure, there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."

"I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won."

"The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register."
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"I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'"

"I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'"

"I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper."

"The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks."

"My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself."

"I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them."
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