"If you ain't got heart, you ain't into nothin'. The main man in that department of all time was Rocky Marciano. He had every handicap - short, around five-ten; light, 188 pounds; no jab; no speed and at the beginning, no left hook - he was not a good defensive fighter and to cap it, a bleeder. Of course he had a great cut man, Whitey Bimstein, and Charley Goldman, a great trainer, taught him to shorten up his shots and develop a left hook. The rest Rocky did all by himself, from inside - his great heart got past all those hurdles. Nobody will ever come close to the Rock. I saw him not long before he got killed in the plane crash. It was at the Copa, at a Tom Jones show. I don't go around makin' a big deal out of celebrities, but that night i felt like going over and telling him what a great champ he was. Wish I had. I was in the Garden after he got killed. They rapped the gong ten times for him. Only time he was counted out."
