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• ‟ Boxing gave me self-confidence that I didn't have growing up. When I was young, I was super quiet and I didn't trust anybody. I didn't like having friends.

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• ‟ There's not a woman in this world that can beat me if we put on a pair of gloves and we fight. I've accomplished so much.

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• ‟ The biggest motivation for me is becoming a three-division world champion faster than any other boxer, male or female.

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• ‟ At the end of the day, no matter what you do, there will be somebody that don't like you. You don't have to like me, but you will respect what I do.

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• ‟ The only thing that me and Muhammad Ali have in common is that we are both Olympic gold medalists and both very outspoken.

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• ‟ My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work just as hard as the guys, or harder than them.

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• ‟ Coming back to Flint and seeing my family keeps me humble. Even though I've been on a worldwide stage, I can still communicate with them on a hood level, if that's what you want to call it.

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• ‟ Growing up in Flint, Michigan, I saw so many kids from my school end up in jail or unemployed, and gangs would hang out and cause trouble in my neighborhood. I had to learn how to protect myself, because it didn't feel like anyone else was protecting me.

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• ‟ My dad would tell me stories about when he was an underground fighter. One day when I was 11, he told me he wished he had a son who could have been a real boxer.

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• ‟ The first punch I learned was the jab. Second, the cross punch; third, the hook - after that, all the combinations and how to move my head and feet. It took me just two months to be ready to get in the ring!

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• ‟ Boxing is so easy for me, sadly. I don't mean to be cocky. The promoters don't like that I walk through other girls but it's not my fault that I'm so good.

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• ‟ I train like an animal in the ring. There's nobody that can beat me because I train hard for everybody.

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• ‟ If I wanted to curse you out, I would write everything I wanted to say to you in my diary, and it was like screaming in my head. After that, I would have no feelings for you; I wouldn't be mad at you or upset because I already said it to you when I wrote it down. That's what writing did for me.

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• ‟ I still really haven't sat down and said 'yeah, I'm ranked No. 1 in the world and I'm an Olympic Gold Medalist.' It just hasn't hit me.

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• ‟ At the Olympics, for those eight minutes of each fight, all that attention was on me. Either the crowd is with you or against you.

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• ‟ I be thinking sometimes, maybe I'm just too hard on people. Maybe I want too much. But no, I don't. All my granny did was cook for me, tell me that she love me, gave me hugs every now and then.

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• ‟ My grades started dropping, and when I sleep all day and come to the gym I'd have a slow day. I needed rules, I guess, in boxing and to just help me, period.

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