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.

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.

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.

I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.

Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

I cannot tell you who will be accompanying me and why, because that would only make myself more vulnerable. So I will not talk about that.

Fashion is emotional, and the way women look at it is emotional, so it's very important to try to connect with a woman's idea of how she might feel.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

I don't like the intellectual label.

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

There are so many Jamaican people here in London, it's going to be like being at home for me.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.