The one criticism I have about Don is that he doesn't have any restraint. You make a buck, but it doesn't have to be your last buck.
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Hopefully you mature as you get older. He's a bright kid. I think the lessons are now sinking in. I think he knows that as a celebrity, he has to protect himself. He can't go to the wrong places.Bob Arum
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I'm still trying to make (the fight). It all rests now on the shoulders of Floyd Mayweather.
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After the (Leon) Spinks loss (in February 1978), I asked him to promise me that he would never fight again.
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