I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

Work hard, think fast and you'll last.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

And round about there is a rabbleOf the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.They shall inherit the earth.

What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.

Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.

Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully.

I did not get an opportunity to die for the country, but I have got an opportunity to live for the country.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.