As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

Greatness is not a measure of how great you are but how great others came to be because of you

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Losers are winners who quit,...even if you lose...you still win...if you don't quit.

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.

Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

Emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down.

The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn't see.

There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. You have to practice and train to become the best.

Everyone only goes around the track once in life and if you don't enjoy that trip it's pretty pathetic.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems that they're willing to pointing at.

I learned much from my father just by watching his example. If I saw him hold a door open for someone, I learned to do the same. Kids always observe their parents and I always watched my daddy.

Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.

I believe in sympathy, compassion and forgiveness.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father.

The spooks are all cowards. Sunlight is the solution to these things.