Well, the discipline was the toughest thing, just eating one good meal a day and eating enough on the eat and eating the right vegetables, fresh vegetables, drinking raw carrot juice.
I got me a vegetable squeezer where I squeezed my carrot juice and my fresh beet juice, getting the full energy from the vegetable and yet not really stuffing myself with the food.
Well, I like the challenge. I like it. I'm not boasting like I used to, but I was so good and so fast and so ahead of my time as a boxer until something like this had to happen.
To give the people some kind of doubt in my winning.
Well, if I'd fought Jerry Acquire or Joe Frazier, the day they took my title, they would rank at no contest.
So now that I've been off three and one half years, this has built up more challenges.
A lot of people have forgotten and they're probably thinking, according to statistics, I should be slow, fat, legs should give out in five or six rounds and no warm-ups.
So they figure, well, maybe he can be beat now because I was too good when I was fighting.
Went listening. I was a kid at 22 years old.
Bones not yet hardened, but had the ability.
Not only do I still have the ability, but I'm just as hard as any developed man.
So I don't have to retreat so much. I can stand there and hit them back now.
God has blessed me with so much natural ability and speed.
I haven't forgotten what I know.
I just have to be in condition to execute what I know.
And my weight is down to 28.
I'm light.
I'm running one hour to a one hour and a half nonstop where I never ran over 30 minutes.
I'm running up to an hour and 30 minutes now.
And my lungs, my legs just got through in here now.
We'll get some nine rounds of constant dancing.
And after two days rest and after the big head guard is offering a little bit of gloves,
everything I'm sure is going to come back, as a matter of fact, faster than it was at first.
I broke the piggy bank to get gas money to get me to the college.
And I got enough gas and food money to get the $4,500, the $3,500 extra.
At $4,500.
That's what hold me, pay gas bills, light bills, until I get to the next college.
This is what I know until the whole mess is over.