«Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography» kitabından alıntılar, sayfa 15

“I’m rich, Mario,” I said. “I don’t have no watch, no money, no phone, but I feel so peaceful. No one’s telling me to ‘go here,’ ‘go there,’ ‘do this.’ I used to have cars that I never drove and I wouldn’t even know where the keys for them were. I had houses I didn’t live in. I had everybody robbing me. Now I have nothing. Nobody calls me, nobody bothers me, nobody is after me. It’s so peaceful. This is rich, man.”

I told Marilyn that the scariest day of my life was when I won the championship belt and Cus wasn’t there. I had all this money and I didn’t have a clue how to comport myself. And then the vultures and the leeches came out.

I was like some really hot, pretty bitch who everybody wanted to fuck, you know what I mean?

When you add the alcohol to that giant ego, anything could happen.

I might not have been a scumbag, but I was an arrogant prick

I was just a sewage rat with delusions of grandeur

There’s nothing that’ll pass time more than reading a whole book.

Cus always used to tell me that fighting is a metaphor for life. It doesn’t matter if you’re losing; it’s what you do after you lose. Are you going to stay down or get back up and try it again? Later I would tell people that my best fight ever was the Douglas fight because it proved that I could take my beating like a man and rebound.

She was a very masculine-looking woman with a severe short haircut. She seemed hell-bent on taking out her anger towards all men on me

That fight really killed my spirit.