“I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

—  Muhammad Ali

On training, as quoted in "Ali: Born Again!" by Pete Axthelm and Peter Bonventre, Newsweek (25 September 1978)

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