“I don't have the desire to hurt anyone anymore. I see a fly, but I don't have the nerve to get up and kill it.”

—  Mike Tyson

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/saraceno/2005-06-12-saraceno-tyson_x.htm
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