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.

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.

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.

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe´s cold and painful indifference to us.

Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.

Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking...,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something.

Only the absolutely determined people succeed.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and I sleep good at night.

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

In America, we're tired. We're exhausted in terms of nuclear.

If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason.

I tell you what I won't put up with. You chose how to behave.