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I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

Even when I was a little punk kid, I would fight anybody - it didn't matter. That's who I've been my whole life.

I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster than me. That he was the best of the best. And I beat him.

I've fought the best guys in the world, and I've beat the best guys in the world.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five.

When I was a kid, I had to fight for everything.

I've never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they're like, 'Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,' but I'm like, 'I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,' so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.