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"Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over."
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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."
Talent
"I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me."
Boxing
"Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy."
Trust
"I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him."
Man
"I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end."
Beginning
"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."
Life
"I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter."
Fight
"I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself."
Fear
"In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian."
Fun
"I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out."
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"Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81."
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"Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference."
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"I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger."
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"The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled."
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"I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment."
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"Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me."
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"My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you."
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"Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment."
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"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."
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"There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence."
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