Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.

Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.

By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful.

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before going in with [Larry] Holmes. That would have made all the difference.

The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid patriotism!

I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.

I have a theory that theories are destructive.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

I really like Billie Holiday's husky voice, and I'd definitely like to find out more about her.

I have sent you nothing but angels

We must learn to suffer more.

I don't really like money - I like the things you can buy with money.