A Quote by Joe Calzaghe
You ask all the super-middleweights: Who is the best fighter in Britain? If I came back, it would be me.
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I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society - from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.
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