Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His “becoming” happens during his daily routine.

I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

It hurt to even bump into him.

Like the bronze statue of the Angel of the Waters, those who pursue perfection find themselves paralysed by the possibility of flaw, fault or failure.

The highest degree of human attainment comes when a person is blissfully at peace with his or her own nature and the natural world.

When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream in music.

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

And I swear that I don't have a gun.

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.

We worry top-down, but we invest bottom-up

There is no true life within a false life.

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.