Editing Floyd Patterson (section)

==Quotes==
* "It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself."<ref>{{cite book |last=Talese |first=Gay |date=2009 |title=The Gay Talese Reader: Portraits and Encounters |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O_uc4DQXWdIC |location=New York |publisher=Bloomsbury USA |page=82 |isbn=978-0-8027-7675-4 |author-link=Gay Talese}}</ref>
* "They said I was the fighter who got knocked down the most, but I also got up the most."<ref>{{cite news |first=Tim |last=Dahlberg |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/11/AR2006051100818.html |title=Former Boxer Floyd Patterson Dies at 71 |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |date=2006-05-11}}{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> (This quote was used in the tenth episode of the 2009 TV series ''[[V (2009 TV series)|V]]''.)
* "When you have millions of dollars, you have millions of friends."<ref>[http://jco.usfca.edu/boxing/rape.html Celestial Timepiece – A Joyce Carol Oates Patchwork]. Jco.usfca.edu. Retrieved on 2016-09-30.</ref>
* On boxing: "It's like being in love with a woman. She can be unfaithful, she can be mean, she can be cruel, but it doesn't matter. If you love her, you want her, even though she can do you all kinds of harm. It's the same with me and boxing. It can do me all kinds of harm but I love it."<ref>{{cite book |last=Cosell |first=Howard |date=1973 |title=COSELL |url=https://archive.org/details/cosellcose00cose |url-access=registration |publisher=Playboy Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/cosellcose00cose/page/167 167] |isbn=119931000X |author-link=Howard Cosell}}</ref>