You don't forget any time you play for a championship and you don't win it. It's just something that sticks with you.
“You don't forget any time you play for a championship and you don't win it. It's just something that sticks with you.”
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You don't forget any time you play for a championship and you don't win it. It's just something that sticks with you.
“You don't forget any time you play for a championship and you don't win it. It's just something that sticks with you.”
You don't forget any time you play for a championship and you don't win it. It's just something that sticks with you.
At the end of the day, we try to get wins. We just go out there and play.
There's been a lot of legends that I've gotten the opportunity to play against, some to play with. Those guys, sometimes they retire or different things, younger guys come up, they start over them.
The reason I got into sickle cell was my aunt has the disease, my uncle has the disease, and then the more I looked into it, a lot of minorities have the disease and it just doesn't get covered. No one really talks about it, and I felt it was the same thing with the different social injustice issues and topics that I kind of dove into.
I truthfully think, a consistent coach over 30 years, probably, I'd rather be that than having one championship and mediocrity for years.
I knew that Errol Spence Jr. was going to be my last fight. I knew that in 2017 when he won his championship fight. But after we fought, I felt that there was something else, and that something else was Terence Crawford.
I've been in a Reds' uniform, in Cincinnati, owning a house here, part of the community. I cross paths with tons of people. Every time it's about 'let's win, let's keep going, let's win a championship here.' And the support has been tremendous. And I want to be a part of the team that gives that back to the community.
Long periods can pass between the times you play for a championship, so you have to savor those moments.