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Emanuel Steward Quotes

born 1944 United States

Emanuel "Manny" Steward (July 7, 1944 – October 25, 2012) was an American boxer, trainer, and commentator for HBO Boxing. Known as "the godfather of Detroit boxing," Steward trained 41 world champion fighters throughout his career, most notably Thomas Hearns.

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I decided to see how far I could go in this, My dream was to take an amateur team and make it nationally famous. The deep dream of everybody is always to have a world champion, but I never really had any specific plans for professional boxing.

I got so engrossed in it then, I started taking the kids on weekends to little tournaments, trying to get them more experience, running here, running there, and it got back into my system.

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