Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.

My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

No one's life will be harder because I exist.

The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.

It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.

The towers fell, and the first thing that went through my head was my dad's voice: 'Well, you brought a new life into the world, and the world's over. Nice timing, numbnuts!

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

I have friends in Utah who care about me as a person, not for what I am. They'll call to see how my heart is, how my blood pressure is. That's important to me.

One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.

One of the most important lessons she'd recently learned was that looking strong and confident was sometimes all the people required of you.

I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.