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Naseem Hamed

Athlete United Kingdom 1974–present

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Boxing has lost its glamour and excitement. I'm going to bring it back.
Naseem Hamed
I don't know what other fighters do, but when I get hit and go down, I smile and I say, 'I'm going to hit you harder than you hit me, and I'm going to knock you out.' The times I go down and get back up - that's when I'm the most dangerous.
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The Scottish public are a great public.
Naseem Hamed
I'm Yemeni, proud to be Yemeni. I'm public Yemeni number one!
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When I used to leave behind my wife and kids and go into training camp for nine weeks at a time, I felt it, especially if you're having young children and leaving them literally within weeks of them being born.
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I know I look arrogant, but I'm altogether a different person outside the ring.
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Amir Khan is Amir Khan. He's a great fighter; he's got great attributes. But Prince Naseem brought something completely different to any other fighter in the whole world.
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Ali could only fight a couple of ways. I can fight five or six different ways.
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As a fighter, I recognise that the one thing we fight for is prizes. The one thing that motivates us is money. A lot of fighters do come back because of money. The biggest spur they have is financial, and thank God my finances were secure, and I didn't need to come back for that reason.
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Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua? Styles make fights, and that would be a great clash of styles and a great clash of personalities.
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I've knocked guys out in the 11th round before, late.
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There were a lot of fighters who were better than me that got knocked out and stopped because they stayed in the game too long. That never happened to me. I don't know that feeling. I thank God so much that that didn't happen to me.
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