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LAILA ALI'S QUOTES FROM NATIONAL TV INTERVIEW ON FOX NEWS LIVE

Expectations for August 23:

"I'm looking forward to fighting Christy Martin on Pay-Per-View August 23 and giving her a beatdown for everyone to see."

Her beginnings in boxing:

"I didn't even know that women boxed. And then when I saw it for the first time I wanted to do it."

On the love of the sport:

"There's so many other things that I'm talented at, so many things that I could be doing, that I wouldn't be boxing if it wasn't what I loved to do."

Her father's reaction to her career:

"My father is happy that I'm winning. He's happy that I'm representing well. Of course he'll be happy when I'm done boxing, as my mother will and my friends will because then they won't have to worry about anything anymore."

On her father's Parkinson syndrome, and concerns about the dangers of the sport:

"That doesn't worry me. That's obviously something that people are going to be concerned about. It's not proven that it came from boxing. A lot of people have Parkinson's that have never boxed. I think he would have effects from boxing even if he didn't have Parkinson's. But it's not going to stop me from doing what I want to do, just like it doesn't stop other fighters. And we all look up to Muhammad Ali."

Prediction:

"She ain't gonna make it past five. And I want everyone to watch me back up my words."

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