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  1. [T]hey wanted... another Joe Louis. A white man's black man... Didn't these idiots realize that Cassius Clay was the name of a slave owner?…
  2. Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
  3. I was infected with my desire, my resolve, to make it in broadcasting. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and how.
  4. Boxing is the only sport in the world where the clear intention is for one person to inflict bodily harm upon the other person, mainly to t…
  5. I'd never really wanted to become a lawyer. I guess the only reason I went through with it was because my father worked so hard to have a s…
  6. Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to …
  7. Look at that little monkey go.
  8. Like President Reagan, he is a Teflon man. No matter how many mistakes he makes during a telecast, no matter how glaring his weaknesses as …

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