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Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover it's not what they wanted at all. I don't want to be rich.

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Big money causes me too much trouble with my ex-wives and the government. All I want is to keep busy and to be comfortable.

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Whenever I did have a lot of money, I got in trouble.

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I fought in Detroit 23 times.

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Counting amateur fights, I have over a thousand bouts.

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I fought from the time I was eight years old, sometimes three, four fights a night. We did it to eat, and we did it because we were just tough kids.

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Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, pound-for-pound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss.

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You don't compare a guy with 30 or 40 fights with a guy who had 200 fights and fought over 25 years.

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God's been pretty good to me. He made me duck all those punches that were supposed to land.

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If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: July 10th, 1922

Died: September 19th, 2017

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