Manny Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach opens up on how boxing helped his fight against Parkinson's!!!

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55-year-old boxing trainer Freddie Roach is two weeks away from the biggest fight of his career, and ahead of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather megafight, Roach revealed that his job working with Pacquiao has saved him from the negative effects of Parkinson’s disease. Roach has lived with Parkinson’s for decades, and told the Telegraph’s Gareth Davies that his medication can cause him to have suicidal thoughts.

Via the Telegraph:

“With Parkinson’s, sometimes you wake up and think: ‘Why the [expletive] did they pick me?’ But, you know, that’s part of life. Some of the medications do cause depression and so forth and some mornings I’ll think about bad things. But then I’ll go to the gym and go to work and everything bad goes away…. I have a new neurologist and I told him that sometimes I think about killing myself. He asked me why and I said: ‘It’s just [expletive] difficult sometimes dealing with this [expletive].’ He said maybe I should see a psychologist. I said: ‘Doc, I’m just kidding. I might think about it but I would never hurt myself. I am not that brave.'”

Roach also said that he believes Pacquiao has never been better, and credited the fighter’s attitude. Roach, who first met Pacquiao when the boxer wandered into his gym in 2001, said he’s only ever seen Pacquiao angry twice in his life.

“Manny has been a great part of my life. The best part about Manny is the kind of person he is. He’s just a nice person. I’ve seen him mad twice and he’s been mad at me once. I had to tell him that he was staying up too late and that he had to go to bed and get some rest. That was back in the day when he was maybe playing around too much. He didn’t talk to me for a week and I thought I was going to get fired.”

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