George Foreman can knock down an oak tree ... but oak trees don't move.

Now, training fighters is like trying to catch fish. It's not the strength but the technique.

Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.

There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .

You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it!

When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!

The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep

Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.

Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

I like to control my own personal life.

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.

When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.

We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart].

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.

Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.