To Mike Wallace in an ABC-TV-interview in Los Angeles (May 18, 1957). Quoted in LA Times http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2007/05/cohen_talks.html (May 19, 1957).
“Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.”
Comment after the match with Jimmy Ellis was stopped by the referee in the twelfth round (July 1971)
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