I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.

My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

You will have the grace of writing, when you boldly begin to write your first sentences.

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.

We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it

My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids.

All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl.