I'm a happy guy. I just want to see people laugh and smile.

You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.

Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.

By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful.

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

The one with karma is known as mortal (jiva) and the one without karma is known as Soul (Self

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

People that talk about living in the real world don't even enjoy living in the real world.

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.

Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.