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.

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.

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.

If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody.

Não é verdade que a felicidade é aquilo que procuramos sem nunca sermos capazes de a reconhecer?

Death is not in the nature of things

You will only receive from the universe the fruits of your thoughts

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa

It was fun to talk too much [as Jebediah Woodley], to keep running your mouth whether the other characters want to hear it or not. That's part of what made this guy fun.

You burros have calculus in your blood.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.