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I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster than me. That he was the best of the best. And I beat him. Roberto Duran
Best Me Faster Sugar Everybody Beat He Ray Him Boxer Said Than Who Fought Sugar Ray Leonard
I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion. Roberto Duran
Me You Heart Champion World Thank You Everybody Saw States Enter Could Opened Becoming Thank America Want Your Who Grow World Champion United Lives United States
I really feel that if it wasn't for the accident, I'd still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters. I would have made sure that the doctors would have declared me physically sound; and after that, I would have trained. Roberto Duran
Me Made Doctors Accident Fighting Would Some Physically Feel Sure Sound Still Trained Handled After Really Fighters
Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody. Roberto Duran
Me Black Legend White Everybody Jews Says Calls Italians
I was born to be champion of the world. Roberto Duran
Champion World Born
Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me. Roberto Duran
Time Me Somebody Every Every Time Ring Stepped Wanted
There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama. Rod Carew
Good Remember Barefoot Down Kid Rises Crowd Tennis Had Driving Feet Also Cheers Ball How How Much Line Ballpark Quiet Hitting Dusty Getting Wood Sensation Double Much Skinny Special Fun Street Panama
Every time I come back to the Twin Cities, I feel like I'm coming back home. Rod Carew
Time Home Every Every Time Back Cities Feel Come Like Coming Twin
Get your heart checked. I've always looked at myself as healthy, but I wasn't. Rod Carew
Myself Heart Healthy Checked Looked Always Get Your
I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh. Rod Carew
Me Defense Other Kick Way Laugh Out Direction Steps Glove His Hit Get Goes Moves Team Right Player Watching Two
Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself. Rod Carew
Three Thousand Something Itself Hits Should Stand
Back when I first came up with the Twins as a second baseman, Billy worked with me on my fielding, on playing the game, on being heads-up, hustling, always doing my best, not alibiing. And when he was the Twins' manager, I enjoyed playing for him. Rod Carew
Best Me Game First Back Hustling He Him Always Doing Came Up Manager Being Worked Billy Baseman Enjoyed Twins Second Playing
Here I am, a black man with a white man's heart. In the end, that's what God wants us to do. He wants us to help, and he wants us to share. Rod Carew
God Man Heart Black White Share He Am End Wants In The End Us Help Here
Tell your friends to get their hearts checked. Rod Carew
Tell Checked Friends Get Hearts Your
I'm more conscious of where the outfielders are playing when I'm on base, and I don't take such wide turns anymore running around the bases. I'm still learning. Rod Carew
Learning Running More Take Around Still Where Anymore Turns Base Bases Conscious Wide Playing
I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs. Ruben Blades
You People Speak Never Know Around Did Any Story Interested Then
There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics. Ruben Blades
Lyrics Out About Something More Emotion Tango Even Brings
What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another. Ruben Blades
Music Would Exchange Had Between New Another Cuba Occurred Go New Orleans Interesting Mean Port Orleans
Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. Ruben Blades
Music Youth Generation Young Rock Just Speaks Oriented
But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood. Ruben Blades
Neighborhood About Sing Sort Began Thirteen
It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here. Ruben Blades
People Think Latin Latin America Almost Hip America Happening Here
So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74. Ruben Blades
Think Too New Sure Came End Miami York New York Again Then Now Right
So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami. Ruben Blades
Family Came Miami Panama
So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with. Ruben Blades
Family Money Something Obvious Became Because Without Left Miami Begin Any Anything While Really Needed
What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off. Ruben Blades
People Ripped Fact Talents Accept Were Off Many
In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market. Ruben Blades
Big Market Latin Those Days Particular Labels Any Interest
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