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Hey, Joe?

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What's the highlight
of your career?

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There's a lot of things in

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in my life that

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the whole world
just they don't know

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'cause I never sit
down and tell 'em.

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Mom and Dad had probably
15 (kids) together.

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Out of all of them, I
was the youngest one.

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I knocked my arm out of place
when I was a little boy.

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My Mom said, "Listen, you
go down to the pen..."

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"Feed the hog, do
not tease him."

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"Yes, ma'am."

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When I went down to feed the hog

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I started teasing him.

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He was a big old bull,
man, he was that high

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and he jumped on the fence.

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He couldn't run
no faster than me

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I took away from him, but

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when I tripped and hit the brick

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the brick took the
arm out of place.

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And back in them days

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Mom and Dad didn't have the

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finance.

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My Dad didn't have the love.

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You know how you
spell love, right?

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M-O-N-E-Y

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I grew up with a bad arm,
but that never stopped me.

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Come home in the evening

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I had 30 minutes
to punch the bag.

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It was like a daily recitation.

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So I decided I'd
find a better way

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for Mom and Dad.

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I tell them, "One of these days, I'm
gonna build y'all whatever you want."

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"I'm gonna be champion
of the world."

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I couldn't understand why

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we had different schools.

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I couldn't ride the bus.

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I had to get out of town. at
certain times during the day.

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We had problems, you know

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racial problems, you know

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with my white brothers.

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I never could understand why

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because we all had the same arm

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the same leg

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some of them
shorter than others.

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I was borrowing cars
that wasn't mine

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and didn't bring it back.

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I had to leave

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because that wasn't gonna work

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being a thief.

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I lived with an aunt

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she was like a maid

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and my uncle, who was here

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his name was Cadillac.

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Mr. Yank Durham, God bless him.

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I didn't go anywhere
without him.

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I had all knockouts before I
went to the (Olympic) tryout.

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I'm telling my
family and my friends

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"Hey, I'm gonna beat 'em all."

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I didn't think
Mathis won the fight

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but he got it anyway, so

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I came back with a little
tear dripping down.

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Tokyo was like a whole
different world altogether.

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The second to last guy

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he was 231 pounds

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of nothing but muscle and bone.

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I said come on with it.

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I dropped him two times

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third time they didn't
let him come back out

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and that's where I
bust up the thumb then.

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Put some hot water

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some salt

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and sugar

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an old remedy that Mom used
to give me and Dad, you know.

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Nobody won the
gold medal but me.

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It was a great thrill

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to know that

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I saved America.

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Time was real bad

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I didn't have a job.

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I was working at
the slaughterhouse

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and then I got laid off.

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Well I was going blind in '64

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when I came back from the Games.

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Blind and broke wasn't no fun.

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That one particular fight

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I didn't like the
way I performed.

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He could punch.

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He was trying to get
that third knockdown

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with a push and a shove.

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Because he knew if he
pushed me down a third time

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they were gonna stop the fight.

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He said he was the greatest.

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Nobody could beat him.

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I came outta Mama like this.

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I wanna shut him down!

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I hit him with everything and
he just wouldn't fall, man.

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He was a tough guy.

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He said, "You got my title."

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I said, "I ain't
got your title."

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I didn't take it away from you.

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You know what happened.

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You didn't fulfill
your responsibility.

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"That's why you lost the title."

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He said, "Joe Frazier, I
need to go to New York."

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I said, "Alright. I'll
take you to New York."

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I put him in my car.

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I took him to New York.

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We got to start talking.

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He said he didn't
have enough money.

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I can't remember what it was

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five hundred dollars

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two hundred dollars

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three hundred dollars

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but I gave him some money.

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We go into New York

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he got out of the car

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"Joe Frazier

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got my title.

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"I want my title!"

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Man, come on man.

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Give me a break, I brought you.

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"That's Joe Frazier!"

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Take it easy, man.

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We'll get the contract together.

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Just chill out, you
know what I mean?

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I helped him with a
lot of things that

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most people, they wouldn't do.

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We went to the President
of the United States.

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President Nixon.

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"Mr, President, for me, would
you give Muhammad his license?"

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He says, "Joe, do you
think you can take him?"

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"I believe I can take him."

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He was the champion
of the world.

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But, therefore

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if you ain't got something
right to say to me

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then you better
keep being quiet.

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'Cause I'm gonna
peel off and hit you.

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Joe Frazier, you's a Tom!

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Tom?

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I ain't no Peepin' Tom,
what you talking about?

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I ain't peeped in
nobody's window.

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I was there to get the job done.

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I can't let the people down.

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Some of the shots
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they would knock down buildings.

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I went back to the corner.

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I said, "Yank?"

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"What's wrong with this guy, man,
I'm hitting him with all I've got?"

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"Just go right back where
you left off from...

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Them body shots, he will
fall after a while."

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I caught him coming
out of the corner.

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He was going to my left.

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I caught him with a
hook, on a ricochet.

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Boom!

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If the ropes wasn't there, he
would fall out of the ring.

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I throw two left hooks at him.

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Second one was on the chin.

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Bang!

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If I didn't dust him off, he
might have got the decision.

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But he got hurt
in the third round

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eleventh round

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and every round.

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Every round he got
hurt, trust me.

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I feel like I did, let's
say, a blessing to the world.

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I know what the people
would like to know

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Why I went to the hospital.

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I used to go to the doctor
every day after training

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make sure that the
blood pressure is right.

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I'd take a handful of
pills, you know what I mean?

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Hey, babe, what's happening?

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What's happening?

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My dad was a hard working man.

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He drove the farm bus

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to pick up the
workers in the fields

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where they were all ladies.

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So Dad had control
of all the females.

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Wich Mom didn't like
that, you know, but

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that was my daddy.

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I keep getting up every time he
knocked me down. He got mad one time

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"Joe, why don't you stay down?"

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"Why don't you stay down there, man?
I'm tired of knocking you down."

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It wasn't no fight.

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The guy just came
and took me out.

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He was much too powerful for me.

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The problem was that we were trying to
find a referee to break up that mugging

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around my neck
with his left hand.

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I thought George was gonna
catch him a little earlier.

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The guys that fought Muhammad

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they let him have his way.

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Let him move when he wanted

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throw punched when he wanted.

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No.

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No.

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Muhammad stayed at the palace

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and I stayed at the hotel.

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I wasn't into politics, no.

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I was into sports

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being a champion and
getting the job done.

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My right eye got closed

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the left eye I
couldn't see out of.

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He said, "Now let's call
it." "I told him, "No."

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He said, "No, wait
a minute now."

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"Don't do my job."
I said, "All right."

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I heard that Muhammad wasn't
going to get up off the stool

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but that's not my corner

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and I wasn't over
there to see that.

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I'm not mad about it

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because I can see

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I can walk, I can talk,
I can have a good time.

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My working is always forward.

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I don't know how to back up. That's
the only way I know how to fight.

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I was blind in this eye here.

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I wear two contact lenses now.

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I tried to move for a while

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but then he knocked
the lens out.

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The only thing I did wrong was
sign that contract two times.

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That was the wrong
thing I did, okay?

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I sit down and teach these guys.

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I'm not gonna be afraid to go and
tell them what's wrong with it.

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'Cause I've been there.

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But that's the name of the game

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win.

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Yeah, well, he knows I
wasn't going to back down.

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Yeah, that's for sure.

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I'm not gonna start fighting.

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I'll just go over and say
"Hello, man." You know.

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He's handicapped, I'll
help him cross the street.

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I'll stop the trucks.

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I want the guy to
enjoy life like me.

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Enjoy some of the
things that he missed.

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I've learned to put
a cover over my mouth

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by saying things
that I shouldn't say.

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A few of them slip out.

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I'm here talking to you.

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My mind's all together

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my eyes all together

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my brain's all together.

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The fight game,
nothing but the best.

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The fight game has
been good to me.

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I've met a lot of people

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I've been a lot of places

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I've done a lot of things, and

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where would I be if
I wasn't a champion?

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Fightin' is...

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Fightin' is my love.

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