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"To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training."
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"Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives."
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"If I'm free, it's because I'm always running."
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"I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!"
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"Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running."
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"When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes."
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"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away."
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"I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track."
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"My running was very simple; it was out of myself."
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"I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running."
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"How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?"
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"When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have."
Love


"Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons."
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"If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues."
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"Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct."
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"Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive."
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"I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me."
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"Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy."
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"No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran."
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"To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training."
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"I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself."
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