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- What's up everybody?

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I'm Andre Ward and this is my
new book, Killing the Image,

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and this is, That's So Random.

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- Your new memoir, Killing
the Image is out now.

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What's the hardest part about

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sitting down to write about yourself?

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- Deciding how honest you want to be

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and how to not omit the
things that should be in there

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and not to write a puff piece.

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- What do you hope people
take away from your book?

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I hope people take away
not just inspiration,

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but the blueprint that's laid
for people who are dealing

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with similar issues, problems

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and backgrounds to to get
out of their situation

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and get to better ground
and get on the other side.

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One of the issues in my book is family

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generational patterns.

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Unfortunately for me it was addiction

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and that was something
at a young age that sort

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of had me gripped and I know

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that there are people all
over the world dealing

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with the same things and
I want them to, to believe

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that they can overcome that

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and set a new pattern for
their life and their family.

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- If your book was turned into a

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movie, who would you want to play? You?

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- The movie will be coming
out one day. I will say that.

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And we are going to be on the
search for the right actor

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to play Andre War because
I wanted to be someone

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that's genuine, real and
that actually favors me.

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- You were undefeated
in your boxing career.

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Did you ever think about what it feel like

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to lose and how you deal with it?

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- Well, I was undefeated in
my professional boxing career.

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I was not undefeated in
my amateur career, and

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because of that, that last
loss, I can still feel it today.

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It still stings like it
just happened yesterday

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and that's what allowed me

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to go undefeated in my
professional boxing career.

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- You retired at 33 years old.

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What's the biggest toll
boxing takes on the body

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that perhaps most people
aren't even aware of?

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- The training and preparation

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to actually get in the ring
in box, I believe is one

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of the biggest toes that I
had to endure on my body.

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It's the miles, it's the
hitting the heavy bag.

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It's the sparring, it's
all the, the preparation,

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the prep work to get in there.

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That's the stuff that starts

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to wear down your joints
beat up your muscles,

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beat up your bones,

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and thenwhen you get up in the morning,

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your body's talking to you.

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It's all from the preparation.

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- Describe the first moment you felt seen

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for your talents as a boxer.

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- I think the first moment I
really felt seen was winning my

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first national title.

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It's one thing to be a local

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fighter and you're winning locally.

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People are sort of taking
notice, but not really.

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But when you get to the national level

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and you can say you're the best
fighter at a hundred pounds,

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in my case, at 10 years
old, that's saying something

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and that gets everybody's attention

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- In five words.

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Why should people drop what they're doing

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and read Killing the Image

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- Because it's the best decision

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you can make.