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FROM WARRIORS' LIPS

“I AM A MAN OF DESTINY. I’m gonna win the heavyweight championship of the world, earn a million dollars and get me a chauffeur-driven, tomato-red Cadillac with built-in hi-fi, television and telephones. I’m gonna make the the world sit up and take notice and say, Wow, this kid is the GREATEST”
Cassius Clay (after winning gold at the 1960 Olympics)
“When I retire I want to get very, very fat just once. I’m gonna stay up late and inhale the fumes of good jazz in nice, smoky nightclubs with good jazz combos. I’m gonna sleep late in the mornings and never run again. I’ll burn all my training clothes and hang my gloves way up out of reach. My wife will hide my dusty scrapbooks and my picture albums and I’ll have to walk down to the gymArchie Moore

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